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NX 842 compression accelerator

Bulent Abali edited this page Jul 3, 2019 · 3 revisions

NX-842 is a lossless on-chip data compression accelerator found on Power processor chips P7+, P8, and P9. Two engines per processor socket has a combined throughput of 32 to 39 GBytes per second for compress and decompress.

NX-842 is available only in the kernel space.

Additional information:

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-March/156078.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-April/156106.html

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