Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine

• Introduction
• License
• Requirements
• Installation Instructions
• Test Performace
• Contribution guidelines
• More Information
• Copyright

Introduction

Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine is to build performance competitiveness of common software libraries on the Kunpeng platform.

Kunpeng Zlib Acceleration Engine，which is a new technology within Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 processors，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.

More Information

For further assistance and QA, contact Huawei Support at:

https://www.huaweicloud.com/kunpeng/software/kaezip.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2018 Huawei Corporation. All rights reserved.