X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fcompressdevs%2Fqat_comp.rst;h=475c4a9f9f1cd44feec4eb9a87f71c2ad8fec5a2;hb=1b7b24389cee5baa421d334048782e3e99e7dec5;hp=567a1fc806301503ccec396607d2fd7caaba3f45;hpb=e2e35849ea78ca54627ae86c58cb9c253ca59a91;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst b/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst index 567a1fc806..475c4a9f9f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst +++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/qat_comp.rst @@ -29,12 +29,20 @@ Checksum generation: * CRC32, Adler and combined checksum +Stateful operation: + + * Decompression only + Limitations ----------- * Compressdev level 0, no compression, is not supported. -* Queue pairs are not thread-safe (that is, within a single queue pair, RX and TX from different lcores is not supported). +* Queue-pairs are thread-safe on Intel CPUs but Queues are not (that is, within a single + queue-pair all enqueues to the TX queue must be done from one thread and all dequeues + from the RX queue must be done from one thread, but enqueues and dequeues may be done + in different threads.) * No BSD support as BSD QAT kernel driver not available. +* Stateful compression is not supported. Installation