The QAT compression PMD provides poll mode compression & decompression driver support for the following hardware accelerator devices:
QAT compression PMD has support for:
Compression/Decompression algorithm:
- DEFLATE - using Fixed and Dynamic Huffman encoding
Window size support:
- 32K
Checksum generation:
- CRC32, Adler and combined checksum
The QAT compression PMD is built by default with a standard DPDK build.
It depends on a QAT kernel driver, see Building PMDs on QAT.