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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
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4Intel(R) QuickAssist (QAT) Compression Poll Mode Driver
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7The QAT compression PMD provides poll mode compression & decompression driver
8support for the following hardware accelerator devices:
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10* ``Intel QuickAssist Technology C62x``
11* ``Intel QuickAssist Technology C3xxx``
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14Features
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17QAT compression PMD has support for:
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19Compression/Decompression algorithm:
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21    * DEFLATE - using Fixed and Dynamic Huffman encoding
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23Window size support:
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25    * 32K
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27Checksum generation:
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29    * CRC32, Adler and combined checksum
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31Limitations
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34* Compressdev level 0, no compression, is not supported.
35* Queue pairs are not thread-safe (that is, within a single queue pair, RX and TX from different lcores is not supported).
36* No BSD support as BSD QAT kernel driver not available.
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39Installation
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42The QAT compression PMD is built by default with a standard DPDK build.
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44It depends on a QAT kernel driver, see :ref:`building_qat`.
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