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Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration
Linux 6.15 keeps getting more exciting..
The two major motivations for updating Zstandard are to keep the code up to date, and to expose API's needed by Intel for the QAT compression accelerator. Overnight Linus Torvalds merged the code and thus Zstd 1.5.7 is now in Linux 6.15 for providing a nice performance speed-up for those making use of in-kernel Zstandard compression/decompression and also being helpful to Intel engineers in their QAT accelerator work. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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