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GZIP compression offloading with QAT accelerator

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GZIP compression offloading with QAT accelerator

This patch implement the hardware accelerator method in GZIP compression
in ZFS. When the ZFS pool is enabled GZIP compression, the compression
API will be automatically transferred to the hardware accelerator to
free up CPU resource and speed up the compression time.

  • To enable Intel QAT hardware acceleration in ZOL you need to have QAT hardware and the driver installed:
  • Start QAT driver in your system: service qat_service start
  • Enable QAT in ZFS, e.g.: ./configure --with-qat=<qat-driver-path>/QAT1.6 make
  • Set GZIP compression in ZFS dataset: zfs set compression = gzip <dataset>
  • Get QAT hardware statistics by: cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/qat
  • To disable QAT in ZFS: insmod zfs.ko zfs_qat_disable=1

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weigang Li <weigang.li@intel.com>
Closes #5846

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wli5 <weigang.li@intel.com>Authored on Mar 23 2017, 12:58 AM
Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>Committed on Mar 23 2017, 12:58 AM
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rGd48be524ce96: libspl: Fix incorrect use of platform defines on sparc64
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Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> committed rG6a9d6359982c: GZIP compression offloading with QAT accelerator (authored by wli5 <weigang.li@intel.com>).Mar 23 2017, 12:58 AM