Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine
- Introduction
- License
- Requirements
- Installation Instructions
- Test Performace
- Contribution Guidelines
- Vulnerability Management
- Quality Requirements
- Secure Design
- More Information
- Copyright
Introduction
Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine is used to build performance competitiveness of common software libraries on the Kunpeng platform.
As a new function in the HiSilicon Kunpeng 920 processors, Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine provides a hardware-enabled foundation for compression. It significantly increases the performance across cloud, big data, and storage applications and platforms. By using Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine, you can:
- Have higher-performance compression and decompression
- Maximize CPU utilization
The compression and decompression algorithm supported by Kunpeng Acceleration Engine are: gzip/zlib
License
It is licensed under the zlib License(https://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html ). For more information, see the LICENSE file.
Requirements
- CPU: Kunpeng 920
- Support Operating System:
- CentOS 7.6 4.14.0-115.el7a.0.1.aarch64 version
- SuSE 15.1 4.12.14-195-default arch64 version
- NeoKylin 7.6 4.14.0-115.5.1.el7a.06.aarch64 version
- EulerOS 2.8 4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h410.eulerosv2r8.aarch64 version
- BCLinux-R7-U6-Server-aarch64 version
- Kylin 4.0.2 (juniper) 4.15.0-70-generic version
- Kylin release 4.0.2 (SP2) 4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h403.ky4.aarch64 version
- UniKylin Linux release 3(Core) 4.18.0-80.ky3.kb21.hw.aarch64 version
- Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.15.0-29-generic version
Installation Instructions
Clone the Github repository containing the Kunpeng Accelerator Engine Driver.
git clone https://github.com/kunpengcompute/KAEzip
Download the release version of Kunpeng Accelerator Engine Driver from:
https://github.com/kunpengcompute/KAEdriver/releases
Firstly, build and install the accelerator driver.
Note: To build the Kunpeng Accelerator Engine Driver, install the kernel-devel
package first.
tar -zxf Kunpeng_KAE_driver.tar.gz
cd kae_driver
make
make install
modprobe uacce
modprobe hisi_qm
modprobe hisi_zip
Secondly, install the accelerator library:
cd warpdrive
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
Then Install KAEzip library:
Download zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz at KAEzip/open_source.
cd KAEzip
sh setup.sh install
for more install guid and user guid, get information at: https://www.huaweicloud.com/kunpeng/software/kaezip.html
Test Performace
cd test
make
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/kaezip/lib
./kaezip_perf -m 8 -l 1024 -n 1000
./kaezip_perf -m 8 -l 1024 -n 1000 -d
Contribution Guidelines
If you want to contribute to KAEzip, please use GitHub issues for tracking requests and bugs.
Vulnerability Management
Please refer to https://github.com/kunpengcompute/Kunpeng#security
Quality Requirements
Please refer to Secure Coding Specifications.
Secure Design
Please refer to Secure Design.
More Information
For further assistance and more QAs, contact Huawei Support at:
https://www.hikunpeng.com/developer/boostkit/library/compression
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 Huawei Corporation. All rights reserved.