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Intel QATlib 25.08 Brings Hugepages Support & Other Improvements
Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library
Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations from the CPU onto dedicated accelerator IP found in recent Xeon processors. Intel QATlib 25.08 continues supporting both QuickAssist Gen4 and Gen5 devices -- there are older QAT hardware out there but unsupported. Intel recently began upstreaming Intel QAT Gen6 hardware support within the Linux kernel driver for presumably finding QAT Gen6 with upcoming Xeon Diamond Rapids / Clearwater Forest processors but QATlib isn't yet officially support that next-generation accelerator.
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