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3
4Compression Device Library
5===========================
6
7The compression framework provides a generic set of APIs to perform compression services
8as well as to query and configure compression devices both physical(hardware) and virtual(software)
9to perform those services. The framework currently only supports lossless compression schemes:
10Deflate and LZS.
11
12Device Management
13-----------------
14
15Device Creation
16~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
17
18Physical compression devices are discovered during the bus probe of the EAL function
19which is executed at DPDK initialization, based on their unique device identifier.
20For e.g. PCI devices can be identified using PCI BDF (bus/bridge, device, function).
21Specific physical compression devices, like other physical devices in DPDK can be
22white-listed or black-listed using the EAL command line options.
23
24Virtual devices can be created by two mechanisms, either using the EAL command
25line options or from within the application using an EAL API directly.
26
27From the command line using the --vdev EAL option
28
29.. code-block:: console
30
31   --vdev  '<pmd name>,socket_id=0'
32
33.. Note::
34
35   * If DPDK application requires multiple software compression PMD devices then required
36     number of ``--vdev`` with appropriate libraries are to be added.
37
38   * An Application with multiple compression device instances exposed by the same PMD must
39     specify a unique name for each device.
40
41   Example: ``--vdev  'pmd0' --vdev  'pmd1'``
42
43Or, by using the rte_vdev_init API within the application code.
44
45.. code-block:: c
46
47   rte_vdev_init("<pmd_name>","socket_id=0")
48
49All virtual compression devices support the following initialization parameters:
50
51* ``socket_id`` - socket on which to allocate the device resources on.
52
53Device Identification
54~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
55
56Each device, whether virtual or physical is uniquely designated by two
57identifiers:
58
59- A unique device index used to designate the compression device in all functions
60  exported by the compressdev API.
61
62- A device name used to designate the compression device in console messages, for
63  administration or debugging purposes.
64
65Device Configuration
66~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
67
68The configuration of each compression device includes the following operations:
69
70- Allocation of resources, including hardware resources if a physical device.
71- Resetting the device into a well-known default state.
72- Initialization of statistics counters.
73
74The ``rte_compressdev_configure`` API is used to configure a compression device.
75
76The ``rte_compressdev_config`` structure is used to pass the configuration
77parameters.
78
79See *DPDK API Reference* for details.
80
81Configuration of Queue Pairs
82~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
83
84Each compression device queue pair is individually configured through the
85``rte_compressdev_queue_pair_setup`` API.
86
87The ``max_inflight_ops`` is used to pass maximum number of
88rte_comp_op that could be present in a queue at-a-time.
89PMD then can allocate resources accordingly on a specified socket.
90
91See *DPDK API Reference* for details.
92
93Logical Cores, Memory and Queues Pair Relationships
94~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
95
96Library supports NUMA similarly as described in Cryptodev library section.
97
98A queue pair cannot be shared and should be exclusively used by a single processing
99context for enqueuing operations or dequeuing operations on the same compression device
100since sharing would require global locks and hinder performance. It is however possible
101to use a different logical core to dequeue an operation on a queue pair from the logical
102core on which it was enqueued. This means that a compression burst enqueue/dequeue
103APIs are a logical place to transition from one logical core to another in a
104data processing pipeline.
105
106Device Features and Capabilities
107---------------------------------
108
109Compression devices define their functionality through two mechanisms, global device
110features and algorithm features. Global devices features identify device
111wide level features which are applicable to the whole device such as supported hardware
112acceleration and CPU features. List of compression device features can be seen in the
113RTE_COMPDEV_FF_XXX macros.
114
115The algorithm features lists individual algo feature which device supports per-algorithm,
116such as a stateful compression/decompression, checksums operation etc. List of algorithm
117features can be seen in the RTE_COMP_FF_XXX macros.
118
119Capabilities
120~~~~~~~~~~~~
121Each PMD has a list of capabilities, including algorithms listed in
122enum ``rte_comp_algorithm`` and its associated feature flag and
123sliding window range in log base 2 value. Sliding window tells
124the minimum and maximum size of lookup window that algorithm uses
125to find duplicates.
126
127See *DPDK API Reference* for details.
128
129Each Compression poll mode driver defines its array of capabilities
130for each algorithm it supports. See PMD implementation for capability
131initialization.
132
133Capabilities Discovery
134~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
135
136PMD capability and features are discovered via ``rte_compressdev_info_get`` function.
137
138The ``rte_compressdev_info`` structure contains all the relevant information for the device.
139
140See *DPDK API Reference* for details.
141
142Compression Operation
143----------------------
144
145DPDK compression supports two types of compression methodologies:
146
147- Stateless, data associated to a compression operation is compressed without any reference
148  to another compression operation.
149
150- Stateful, data in each compression operation is compressed with reference to previous compression
151  operations in the same data stream i.e. history of data is maintained between the operations.
152
153For more explanation, please refer RFC https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt
154
155Operation Representation
156~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
157
158Compression operation is described via ``struct rte_comp_op``, which contains both input and
159output data. The operation structure includes the operation type (stateless or stateful),
160the operation status and the priv_xform/stream handle, source, destination and checksum buffer
161pointers. It also contains the source mempool from which the operation is allocated.
162PMD updates consumed field with amount of data read from source buffer and produced
163field with amount of data of written into destination buffer along with status of
164operation. See section *Produced, Consumed And Operation Status* for more details.
165
166Compression operations mempool also has an ability to allocate private memory with the
167operation for application's purposes. Application software is responsible for specifying
168all the operation specific fields in the ``rte_comp_op`` structure which are then used
169by the compression PMD to process the requested operation.
170
171
172Operation Management and Allocation
173~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
174
175The compressdev library provides an API set for managing compression operations which
176utilize the Mempool Library to allocate operation buffers. Therefore, it ensures
177that the compression operation is interleaved optimally across the channels and
178ranks for optimal processing.
179
180A ``rte_comp_op`` contains a field indicating the pool it originated from.
181
182``rte_comp_op_alloc()`` and ``rte_comp_op_bulk_alloc()`` are used to allocate
183compression operations from a given compression operation mempool.
184The operation gets reset before being returned to a user so that operation
185is always in a good known state before use by the application.
186
187``rte_comp_op_free()`` is called by the application to return an operation to
188its allocating pool.
189
190See *DPDK API Reference* for details.
191
192Passing source data as mbuf-chain
193~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
194If input data is scattered across several different buffers, then
195Application can either parse through all such buffers and make one
196mbuf-chain and enqueue it for processing or, alternatively, it can
197make multiple sequential enqueue_burst() calls for each of them
198processing them statefully. See *Compression API Stateful Operation*
199for stateful processing of ops.
200
201Operation Status
202~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
203Each operation carries a status information updated by PMD after it is processed.
204Following are currently supported:
205
206- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_SUCCESS,
207    Operation is successfully completed
208
209- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_NOT_PROCESSED,
210    Operation has not yet been processed by the device
211
212- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_INVALID_ARGS,
213    Operation failed due to invalid arguments in request
214
215- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_ERROR,
216    Operation failed because of internal error
217
218- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_INVALID_STATE,
219    Operation is invoked in invalid state
220
221- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_OUT_OF_SPACE_TERMINATED,
222    Output buffer ran out of space during processing. Error case,
223    PMD cannot continue from here.
224
225- RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_OUT_OF_SPACE_RECOVERABLE,
226    Output buffer ran out of space before operation completed, but this
227    is not an error case. Output data up to op.produced can be used and
228    next op in the stream should continue on from op.consumed+1.
229
230Operation status after enqueue / dequeue
231~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
232Some of the above values may arise in the op after an
233``rte_compressdev_enqueue_burst()``. If number ops enqueued < number ops requested then
234the app should check the op.status of nb_enqd+1. If status is RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_NOT_PROCESSED,
235it likely indicates a full-queue case for a hardware device and a retry after dequeuing some ops is likely
236to be successful. If the op holds any other status, e.g. RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_INVALID_ARGS, a retry with
237the same op is unlikely to be successful.
238
239
240Produced, Consumed And Operation Status
241~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
242
243- If status is RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_SUCCESS,
244    consumed = amount of data read from input buffer, and
245    produced = amount of data written in destination buffer
246- If status is RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_ERROR,
247    consumed = produced = undefined
248- If status is RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_OUT_OF_SPACE_TERMINATED,
249    consumed = 0 and
250    produced = usually 0, but in decompression cases a PMD may return > 0
251    i.e. amount of data successfully produced until out of space condition
252    hit. Application can consume output data in this case, if required.
253- If status is RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_OUT_OF_SPACE_RECOVERABLE,
254    consumed = amount of data read, and
255    produced = amount of data successfully produced until
256    out of space condition hit. PMD has ability to recover
257    from here, so application can submit next op from
258    consumed+1 and a destination buffer with available space.
259
260Transforms
261----------
262
263Compression transforms (``rte_comp_xform``) are the mechanism
264to specify the details of the compression operation such as algorithm,
265window size and checksum.
266
267Compression API Hash support
268----------------------------
269
270Compression API allows application to enable digest calculation
271alongside compression and decompression of data. A PMD reflects its
272support for hash algorithms via capability algo feature flags.
273If supported, PMD calculates digest always on plaintext i.e.
274before compression and after decompression.
275
276Currently supported list of hash algos are SHA-1 and SHA2 family
277SHA256.
278
279See *DPDK API Reference* for details.
280
281If required, application should set valid hash algo in compress
282or decompress xforms during ``rte_compressdev_stream_create()``
283or ``rte_compressdev_private_xform_create()`` and pass a valid
284output buffer in ``rte_comp_op`` hash field struct to store the
285resulting digest. Buffer passed should be contiguous and large
286enough to store digest which is 20 bytes for SHA-1 and
28732 bytes for SHA2-256.
288
289Compression API Stateless operation
290------------------------------------
291
292An op is processed stateless if it has
293- op_type set to RTE_COMP_OP_STATELESS
294- flush value set to RTE_FLUSH_FULL or RTE_FLUSH_FINAL
295(required only on compression side),
296- All required input in source buffer
297
298When all of the above conditions are met, PMD initiates stateless processing
299and releases acquired resources after processing of current operation is
300complete. Application can enqueue multiple stateless ops in a single burst
301and must attach priv_xform handle to such ops.
302
303priv_xform in Stateless operation
304~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
305
306priv_xform is PMD internally managed private data that it maintains to do stateless processing.
307priv_xforms are initialized provided a generic xform structure by an application via making call
308to ``rte_comp_private_xform_create``, at an output PMD returns an opaque priv_xform reference.
309If PMD support SHAREABLE priv_xform indicated via algorithm feature flag, then application can
310attach same priv_xform with many stateless ops at-a-time. If not, then application needs to
311create as many priv_xforms as it expects to have stateless operations in-flight.
312
313.. figure:: img/stateless-op.*
314
315   Stateless Ops using Non-Shareable priv_xform
316
317
318.. figure:: img/stateless-op-shared.*
319
320   Stateless Ops using Shareable priv_xform
321
322
323Application should call ``rte_compressdev_private_xform_create()`` and attach to stateless op before
324enqueuing them for processing and free via ``rte_compressdev_private_xform_free()`` during termination.
325
326An example pseudocode to setup and process NUM_OPS stateless ops with each of length OP_LEN
327using priv_xform would look like:
328
329.. code-block:: c
330
331    /*
332     * pseudocode for stateless compression
333     */
334
335    uint8_t cdev_id = rte_compdev_get_dev_id(<pmd name>);
336
337    /* configure the device. */
338    if (rte_compressdev_configure(cdev_id, &conf) < 0)
339        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed to configure compressdev %u", cdev_id);
340
341    if (rte_compressdev_queue_pair_setup(cdev_id, 0, NUM_MAX_INFLIGHT_OPS,
342                            socket_id()) < 0)
343        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed to setup queue pair\n");
344
345    if (rte_compressdev_start(cdev_id) < 0)
346        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed to start device\n");
347
348    /* setup compress transform */
349    struct rte_compress_compress_xform compress_xform = {
350        .type = RTE_COMP_COMPRESS,
351        .compress = {
352            .algo = RTE_COMP_ALGO_DEFLATE,
353            .deflate = {
354                .huffman = RTE_COMP_HUFFMAN_DEFAULT
355            },
356            .level = RTE_COMP_LEVEL_PMD_DEFAULT,
357            .chksum = RTE_COMP_CHECKSUM_NONE,
358            .window_size = DEFAULT_WINDOW_SIZE,
359            .hash_algo = RTE_COMP_HASH_ALGO_NONE
360        }
361    };
362
363    /* create priv_xform and initialize it for the compression device. */
364    void *priv_xform = NULL;
365    rte_compressdev_info_get(cdev_id, &dev_info);
366    if(dev_info.capability->comps_feature_flag & RTE_COMP_FF_SHAREABLE_PRIV_XFORM) {
367        rte_comp_priv_xform_create(cdev_id, &compress_xform, &priv_xform);
368    } else {
369        shareable = 0;
370    }
371
372    /* create operation pool via call to rte_comp_op_pool_create and alloc ops */
373    rte_comp_op_bulk_alloc(op_pool, comp_ops, NUM_OPS);
374
375    /* prepare ops for compression operations */
376    for (i = 0; i < NUM_OPS; i++) {
377        struct rte_comp_op *op = comp_ops[i];
378        if (!shareable)
379            rte_priv_xform_create(cdev_id, &compress_xform, &op->priv_xform)
380        else
381            op->priv_xform = priv_xform;
382        op->type = RTE_COMP_OP_STATELESS;
383        op->flush = RTE_COMP_FLUSH_FINAL;
384
385        op->src.offset = 0;
386        op->dst.offset = 0;
387        op->src.length = OP_LEN;
388        op->input_chksum = 0;
389        setup op->m_src and op->m_dst;
390    }
391    num_enqd = rte_compressdev_enqueue_burst(cdev_id, 0, comp_ops, NUM_OPS);
392    /* wait for this to complete before enqueuing next*/
393    do {
394        num_deque = rte_compressdev_dequeue_burst(cdev_id, 0 , &processed_ops, NUM_OPS);
395    } while (num_dqud < num_enqd);
396
397
398Stateless and OUT_OF_SPACE
399~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
400
401OUT_OF_SPACE is a condition when output buffer runs out of space and where PMD
402still has more data to produce. If PMD runs into such condition, then PMD returns
403RTE_COMP_OP_OUT_OF_SPACE_TERMINATED error. In such case, PMD resets itself and can set
404consumed=0 and produced=amount of output it could produce before hitting out_of_space.
405Application would need to resubmit the whole input with a larger output buffer, if it
406wants the operation to be completed.
407
408Hash in Stateless
409~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
410If hash is enabled, digest buffer will contain valid data after op is successfully
411processed i.e. dequeued with status = RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_SUCCESS.
412
413Checksum in Stateless
414~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
415If checksum is enabled, checksum will only be available after op is successfully
416processed i.e. dequeued with status = RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_SUCCESS.
417
418Compression API Stateful operation
419-----------------------------------
420
421Compression API provide RTE_COMP_FF_STATEFUL_COMPRESSION and
422RTE_COMP_FF_STATEFUL_DECOMPRESSION feature flag for PMD to reflect
423its support for Stateful operations.
424
425A Stateful operation in DPDK compression means application invokes enqueue
426burst() multiple times to process related chunk of data because
427application broke data into several ops.
428
429In such case
430- ops are setup with op_type RTE_COMP_OP_STATEFUL,
431- all ops except last set to flush value = RTE_COMP_NO/SYNC_FLUSH
432and last set to flush value RTE_COMP_FULL/FINAL_FLUSH.
433
434In case of either one or all of the above conditions, PMD initiates
435stateful processing and releases acquired resources after processing
436operation with flush value = RTE_COMP_FLUSH_FULL/FINAL is complete.
437Unlike stateless, application can enqueue only one stateful op from
438a particular stream at a time and must attach stream handle
439to each op.
440
441Stream in Stateful operation
442~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
443
444`stream` in DPDK compression is a logical entity which identifies related set of ops, say, a one large
445file broken into multiple chunks then file is represented by a stream and each chunk of that file is
446represented by compression op `rte_comp_op`. Whenever application wants a stateful processing of such
447data, then it must get a stream handle via making call to ``rte_comp_stream_create()``
448with xform, at an output the target PMD will return an opaque stream handle to application which
449it must attach to all of the ops carrying data of that stream. In stateful processing, every op
450requires previous op data for compression/decompression. A PMD allocates and set up resources such
451as history, states, etc. within a stream, which are maintained during the processing of the related ops.
452
453Unlike priv_xforms, stream is always a NON_SHAREABLE entity. One stream handle must be attached to only
454one set of related ops and cannot be reused until all of them are processed with status Success or failure.
455
456.. figure:: img/stateful-op.*
457
458   Stateful Ops
459
460
461Application should call ``rte_comp_stream_create()`` and attach to op before
462enqueuing them for processing and free via ``rte_comp_stream_free()`` during
463termination. All ops that are to be processed statefully should carry *same* stream.
464
465See *DPDK API Reference* document for details.
466
467An example pseudocode to set up and process a stream having NUM_CHUNKS with each chunk size of CHUNK_LEN would look like:
468
469.. code-block:: c
470
471    /*
472     * pseudocode for stateful compression
473     */
474
475    uint8_t cdev_id = rte_compdev_get_dev_id(<pmd name>);
476
477    /* configure the  device. */
478    if (rte_compressdev_configure(cdev_id, &conf) < 0)
479        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed to configure compressdev %u", cdev_id);
480
481    if (rte_compressdev_queue_pair_setup(cdev_id, 0, NUM_MAX_INFLIGHT_OPS,
482                                    socket_id()) < 0)
483        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed to setup queue pair\n");
484
485    if (rte_compressdev_start(cdev_id) < 0)
486        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed to start device\n");
487
488    /* setup compress transform. */
489    struct rte_compress_compress_xform compress_xform = {
490        .type = RTE_COMP_COMPRESS,
491        .compress = {
492            .algo = RTE_COMP_ALGO_DEFLATE,
493            .deflate = {
494                .huffman = RTE_COMP_HUFFMAN_DEFAULT
495            },
496            .level = RTE_COMP_LEVEL_PMD_DEFAULT,
497            .chksum = RTE_COMP_CHECKSUM_NONE,
498            .window_size = DEFAULT_WINDOW_SIZE,
499                        .hash_algo = RTE_COMP_HASH_ALGO_NONE
500        }
501    };
502
503    /* create stream */
504    rte_comp_stream_create(cdev_id, &compress_xform, &stream);
505
506    /* create an op pool and allocate ops */
507    rte_comp_op_bulk_alloc(op_pool, comp_ops, NUM_CHUNKS);
508
509    /* Prepare source and destination mbufs for compression operations */
510    unsigned int i;
511    for (i = 0; i < NUM_CHUNKS; i++) {
512        if (rte_pktmbuf_append(mbufs[i], CHUNK_LEN) == NULL)
513            rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Not enough room in the mbuf\n");
514        comp_ops[i]->m_src = mbufs[i];
515        if (rte_pktmbuf_append(dst_mbufs[i], CHUNK_LEN) == NULL)
516            rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Not enough room in the mbuf\n");
517        comp_ops[i]->m_dst = dst_mbufs[i];
518    }
519
520    /* Set up the compress operations. */
521    for (i = 0; i < NUM_CHUNKS; i++) {
522        struct rte_comp_op *op = comp_ops[i];
523        op->stream = stream;
524        op->m_src = src_buf[i];
525        op->m_dst = dst_buf[i];
526        op->type = RTE_COMP_OP_STATEFUL;
527        if(i == NUM_CHUNKS-1) {
528            /* set to final, if last chunk*/
529            op->flush = RTE_COMP_FLUSH_FINAL;
530        } else {
531            /* set to NONE, for all intermediary ops */
532            op->flush = RTE_COMP_FLUSH_NONE;
533        }
534        op->src.offset = 0;
535        op->dst.offset = 0;
536        op->src.length = CHUNK_LEN;
537        op->input_chksum = 0;
538        num_enqd = rte_compressdev_enqueue_burst(cdev_id, 0, &op[i], 1);
539        /* wait for this to complete before enqueuing next*/
540        do {
541            num_deqd = rte_compressdev_dequeue_burst(cdev_id, 0 , &processed_ops, 1);
542        } while (num_deqd < num_enqd);
543        /* push next op*/
544    }
545
546
547Stateful and OUT_OF_SPACE
548~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
549
550If PMD supports stateful operation, then OUT_OF_SPACE status is not an actual
551error for the PMD. In such case, PMD returns with status
552RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_OUT_OF_SPACE_RECOVERABLE with consumed = number of input bytes
553read and produced = length of complete output buffer.
554Application should enqueue next op with source starting at consumed+1 and an
555output buffer with available space.
556
557Hash in Stateful
558~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
559If enabled, digest buffer will contain valid digest after last op in stream
560(having flush = RTE_COMP_OP_FLUSH_FINAL) is successfully processed i.e. dequeued
561with status = RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_SUCCESS.
562
563Checksum in Stateful
564~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
565If enabled, checksum will only be available after last op in stream
566(having flush = RTE_COMP_OP_FLUSH_FINAL) is successfully processed i.e. dequeued
567with status = RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_SUCCESS.
568
569Burst in compression API
570-------------------------
571
572Scheduling of compression operations on DPDK's application data path is
573performed using a burst oriented asynchronous API set. A queue pair on a compression
574device accepts a burst of compression operations using enqueue burst API. On physical
575devices the enqueue burst API will place the operations to be processed
576on the device's hardware input queue, for virtual devices the processing of the
577operations is usually completed during the enqueue call to the compression
578device. The dequeue burst API will retrieve any processed operations available
579from the queue pair on the compression device, from physical devices this is usually
580directly from the devices processed queue, and for virtual device's from a
581``rte_ring`` where processed operations are placed after being processed on the
582enqueue call.
583
584A burst in DPDK compression can be a combination of stateless and stateful operations with a condition
585that for stateful ops only one op at-a-time should be enqueued from a particular stream i.e. no-two ops
586should belong to same stream in a single burst. However a burst may contain multiple stateful ops as long
587as each op is attached to a different stream i.e. a burst can look like:
588
589+---------------+--------------+--------------+-----------------+--------------+--------------+
590| enqueue_burst | op1.no_flush | op2.no_flush | op3.flush_final | op4.no_flush | op5.no_flush |
591+---------------+--------------+--------------+-----------------+--------------+--------------+
592
593Where, op1 .. op5 all belong to different independent data units. op1, op2, op4, op5 must be stateful
594as stateless ops can only use flush full or final and op3 can be of type stateless or stateful.
595Every op with type set to RTE_COMP_OP_TYPE_STATELESS must be attached to priv_xform and
596Every op with type set to RTE_COMP_OP_TYPE_STATEFUL *must* be attached to stream.
597
598Since each operation in a burst is independent and thus can be completed
599out-of-order,  applications which need ordering, should setup per-op user data
600area with reordering information so that it can determine enqueue order at
601dequeue.
602
603Also if multiple threads calls enqueue_burst() on same queue pair then it’s
604application onus to use proper locking mechanism to ensure exclusive enqueuing
605of operations.
606
607Enqueue / Dequeue Burst APIs
608~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
609
610The burst enqueue API uses a compression device identifier and a queue pair
611identifier to specify the compression device queue pair to schedule the processing on.
612The ``nb_ops`` parameter is the number of operations to process which are
613supplied in the ``ops`` array of ``rte_comp_op`` structures.
614The enqueue function returns the number of operations it actually enqueued for
615processing, a return value equal to ``nb_ops`` means that all packets have been
616enqueued.
617
618The dequeue API uses the same format as the enqueue API but
619the ``nb_ops`` and ``ops`` parameters are now used to specify the max processed
620operations the user wishes to retrieve and the location in which to store them.
621The API call returns the actual number of processed operations returned, this
622can never be larger than ``nb_ops``.
623
624Sample code
625-----------
626
627There are unit test applications that show how to use the compressdev library inside
628app/test/test_compressdev.c
629
630Compression Device API
631~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
632
633The compressdev Library API is described in the *DPDK API Reference* document.
634