Now that QuickAssist acceleration is supported on FreeBSD, it would be really nice to have the drivers compiled into TrueNAS.
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Offloading of ZFS gzip compression and sha256 checksums significantly improve performance and reduce CPU utilization.
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Most of the newer Atom and Xeon-D processors have this support built-in.
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Offloading of ZFS gzip compression and sha256 checksums significantly improve performance and reduce CPU utilization.
GZIP compression offloading with QAT accelerator by wli5 · Pull Request #5846 · openzfs/zfs
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...
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Most of the newer Atom and Xeon-D processors have this support built-in.
