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authorLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-01 11:59:50 +0000
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-01 12:00:19 +0000
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New upstream version 18.11-rc1upstream/18.11-rc1
Change-Id: Iaa71986dd6332e878d8f4bf493101b2bbc6313bb Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ QAT compression PMD has support for:
Compression/Decompression algorithm:
- * DEFLATE
-
-Huffman code type:
-
- * FIXED
+ * DEFLATE - using Fixed and Dynamic Huffman encoding
Window size support:
@@ -36,12 +32,13 @@ Limitations
-----------
* Compressdev level 0, no compression, is not supported.
+* Queue pairs are not thread-safe (that is, within a single queue pair, RX and TX from different lcores is not supported).
+* No BSD support as BSD QAT kernel driver not available.
-* Dynamic Huffman encoding is not yet supported.
Installation
------------
The QAT compression PMD is built by default with a standard DPDK build.
-It depends on a QAT kernel driver, see :ref:`qat_kernel_installation`.
+It depends on a QAT kernel driver, see :ref:`building_qat`.