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2016-12-26 06:19, Ant loves honey:
> I am trying to figure out what it takes to have compression
> support on DPDK such as new PMD driver, additional defines
> and/or API or chipset initialization since the Intel QAT can
> support compression.

You need to solve 2 new things in DPDK:
- introduce a generic compression API
- be able to use a QAT device with a compression driver while
being used with a crypto driver

Interesting work to do :)