Intel Updates QAT Zstd Plugin For Accelerating Zstandard Compression

Released on Sunday night was a new version of the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Zstd plug-in for accelerating Zstandard compression with QAT-enabled adapters and modern Xeon Scalable processors sporting QAT accelerators.

QAT Zstd v0.2 is the first new release to this plug-in since September of last year. While nearly one year has passed, there is just a few bug fixes and some minor features found for the new release.

The QAT Zstd Plugin v0.2 brings an RPM SPEC file to make it easier to build RPMs of this plug-in for RHEL/Fedora based Linux distributions, an ASB "Auto Select Best" QAT compression mode is now enabled by default, and there are a few minor bug fixes.

All of the new commits making up the QAT Zstd Plugin v0.2 release were upstreamed to the plug-ins public GitHub repository just yesterday.

The Intel QAT Zstd Plugin v0.2 release for those wanting to help speed-up Zstandard compression on modern Intel servers can find the code via GitHub.