Is there support for hardware-accelerated gzip using QuickAssist?

[ajgnet]

Noticed that ZFS on linux supports Intel QAT-acceleration which results in significant performance gains for gzip-qat compression while decreasing disk 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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Is this something supported in TrueNAS 12? Wonder if there is a way to enable it manually?

 

[Ericloewe]

I think the QAT side of this doesn't really work in FreeBSD yet. In principle, as soon as FreeBSD supports it, ZFS should pick it up and use it, as I understand it.