【dpdk】NVIDIA MLX5 Compress Driver

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3. NVIDIA MLX5 Compress Driver — Data Plane Development Kit 23.11.0 documentation (dpdk.org)

1. NVIDIA MLX5 Compress Driver

Note

NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020. The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX) that are now NVIDIA trademarks.

The mlx5 compress driver library (librte_compress_mlx5) provides support for NVIDIA BlueField-2, and NVIDIA BlueField-3 families of 25/50/100/200/400 Gb/s adapters.

1.1. Design

This PMD is configuring the compress, decompress amd DMA engines.

GGAs (Generic Global Accelerators) are offload engines that can be used to do memory to memory ta