If the compressed output of a Deflate operation using Dynamic Huffman
Encoding is too big to fit in an intermediate buffer, then the
- operation will return RTE_COMP_OP_STATUS_ERROR and an error will be
- displayed. Options for the application in this case
- are to split the input data into smaller chunks and resubmit
- in multiple operations or to configure QAT with
- larger intermediate buffers.
+ operation will fall back to fixed compression rather than failing the operation.
+ To avoid this less performant case, applications should configure
+ the intermediate buffer size to be larger than the expected input data size
+ (compressed output size is usually unknown, so the only option is to make
+ larger than the input size).
Device and driver naming
rte_mov128(out_msg, tmpl);
comp_req->comn_mid.opaque_data = (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)op;
+ if (likely(qat_xform->qat_comp_request_type ==
+ QAT_COMP_REQUEST_DYNAMIC_COMP_STATELESS)) {
+ if (unlikely(op->src.length > QAT_FALLBACK_THLD)) {
+
+ /* fallback to fixed compression */
+ comp_req->comn_hdr.service_cmd_id =
+ ICP_QAT_FW_COMP_CMD_STATIC;
+
+ ICP_QAT_FW_COMN_NEXT_ID_SET(&comp_req->comp_cd_ctrl,
+ ICP_QAT_FW_SLICE_DRAM_WR);
+
+ ICP_QAT_FW_COMN_NEXT_ID_SET(&comp_req->u2.xlt_cd_ctrl,
+ ICP_QAT_FW_SLICE_NULL);
+ ICP_QAT_FW_COMN_CURR_ID_SET(&comp_req->u2.xlt_cd_ctrl,
+ ICP_QAT_FW_SLICE_NULL);
+
+ QAT_DP_LOG(DEBUG, "QAT PMD: fallback to fixed "
+ "compression! IM buffer size can be too low "
+ "for produced data.\n Please use input "
+ "buffer length lower than %d bytes",
+ QAT_FALLBACK_THLD);
+ }
+ }
+
/* common for sgl and flat buffers */
comp_req->comp_pars.comp_len = op->src.length;
comp_req->comp_pars.out_buffer_sz = rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(op->m_dst) -
#define ERR_CODE_QAT_COMP_WRONG_FW -99
+/* fallback to fixed compression threshold */
+#define QAT_FALLBACK_THLD ((uint32_t)(RTE_PMD_QAT_COMP_IM_BUFFER_SIZE / 1.1))
+
enum qat_comp_request_type {
QAT_COMP_REQUEST_FIXED_COMP_STATELESS,
QAT_COMP_REQUEST_DYNAMIC_COMP_STATELESS,