+/**
+ * This should alloc a stream from the device's mempool and initialise it.
+ * The application should call this API when setting up for the stateful
+ * processing of a set of data on a device. The API can be called multiple
+ * times to set up a stream for each data set. The handle returned is only for
+ * use with ops of op_type STATEFUL and must be passed to the PMD
+ * with every op in the data stream
+ *
+ * @param dev_id
+ * Compress device identifier
+ * @param xform
+ * xform data
+ * @param stream
+ * Pointer to where PMD's private stream handle should be stored
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - 0 if successful and valid stream handle
+ * - <0 in error cases
+ * - Returns -EINVAL if input parameters are invalid.
+ * - Returns -ENOTSUP if comp device does not support STATEFUL operations.
+ * - Returns -ENOTSUP if comp device does not support the comp transform.
+ * - Returns -ENOMEM if the private stream could not be allocated.
+ *
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int
+rte_compressdev_stream_create(uint8_t dev_id,
+ const struct rte_comp_xform *xform,
+ void **stream);
+
+/**
+ * This should clear the stream and return it to the device's mempool.
+ *
+ * @param dev_id
+ * Compress device identifier
+ *
+ * @param stream
+ * PMD's private stream data
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - 0 if successful
+ * - <0 in error cases
+ * - Returns -EINVAL if input parameters are invalid.
+ * - Returns -ENOTSUP if comp device does not support STATEFUL operations.
+ * - Returns -EBUSY if can't free stream as there are inflight operations
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int
+rte_compressdev_stream_free(uint8_t dev_id, void *stream);
+
+/**
+ * This should alloc a private_xform from the device's mempool and initialise
+ * it. The application should call this API when setting up for stateless
+ * processing on a device. If it returns non-shareable, then the appl cannot
+ * share this handle with multiple in-flight ops and should call this API again
+ * to get a separate handle for every in-flight op.
+ * The handle returned is only valid for use with ops of op_type STATELESS.
+ *
+ * @param dev_id
+ * Compress device identifier
+ * @param xform
+ * xform data
+ * @param private_xform
+ * Pointer to where PMD's private_xform handle should be stored
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - if successful returns 0
+ * and valid private_xform handle
+ * - <0 in error cases
+ * - Returns -EINVAL if input parameters are invalid.
+ * - Returns -ENOTSUP if comp device does not support the comp transform.
+ * - Returns -ENOMEM if the private_xform could not be allocated.
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int
+rte_compressdev_private_xform_create(uint8_t dev_id,
+ const struct rte_comp_xform *xform,
+ void **private_xform);
+
+/**
+ * This should clear the private_xform and return it to the device's mempool.
+ * It is the application's responsibility to ensure that private_xform data
+ * is not cleared while there are still in-flight operations using it.
+ *
+ * @param dev_id
+ * Compress device identifier
+ *
+ * @param private_xform
+ * PMD's private_xform data
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - 0 if successful
+ * - <0 in error cases
+ * - Returns -EINVAL if input parameters are invalid.
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int
+rte_compressdev_private_xform_free(uint8_t dev_id, void *private_xform);
+