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diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst b/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8b1270b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause + Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation. + +Intel(R) QuickAssist (QAT) Compression Poll Mode Driver +======================================================= + +The QAT compression PMD provides poll mode compression & decompression driver +support for the following hardware accelerator devices: + +* ``Intel QuickAssist Technology C62x`` +* ``Intel QuickAssist Technology C3xxx`` + + +Features +-------- + +QAT compression PMD has support for: + +Compression/Decompression algorithm: + + * DEFLATE + +Huffman code type: + + * FIXED + +Window size support: + + * 32K + +Checksum generation: + + * CRC32, Adler and combined checksum + +Limitations +----------- + +* Compressdev level 0, no compression, is not supported. + +* 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`. |