GenWQE (Generic Work Queue Engine) is a PCIe acceleration card. This repository contains the source code to test, maintain and update the GenWQE PCIe card. Furthermore a zlib version with hardware acceleration is provided to do zlib style compression/decompression according to RFC1950, RFC1951 and RFC1952. This can be used as alternative to the traditional software zlib.
/lib
card_defs.h Some Macros to debug libcard.c
ddcb_capi.c Low level API for CAPI (IBM System p only, see note below)
ddcb_card.c Wrapper on top of ddcb_capi.c and libcard.c
deflate.c Zlib deflate functions
hardware.c libz functions
hw_defs.h
inflate.c Zlib inflate functions
libcard.c Low level API for GenWQE card
libddcb.c Functions on top of ddcb_card.c
libzADC.map Map file to build so files
libzHW.c De/compression supporting RFC1950, RFC1951 and RFC1952
software.c Interface to call system libz
wrapper.c Wrapper for soft- and hardware-zlib
wrapper.h
/include
ddcb.h
deflate_ddcb.h
deflate_fifo.h
genwqe_vpd.h
libcard.h
libddcb.h
libzHW.h
memcopy_ddcb.h
zaddons.h
/tools
force_cpu.c Helper util to select/force/pin CPU
force_cpu.h
genwqe_echo.c Test program to send "echo" command to GenWQE
genwqe_gzip.c Sample program for gzip using the GenWQE
genwqe_memcopy.c Test Program for Memcopy using GenWQE
genwqe_tools.h
genwqe_update.c Tool to update GenWQE flash
genwqe_vpd_common.c Helper utilities
zlib_mt_perf.c Sample program for inflate/deflate
/licenses
cla-corporate.txt
cla-individual.txt
/spec
genwqe-libz.spec Spec file for building the tools RPM
genwqe-tools.spec Spec file for building the libz RPM
The GenWQE PCIe card can currently be aquired as an option to the latest IBM System p machines:
- EJ12 regular height: PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ12; CCIN 59AB)
- EJ13 low profile: PCIe3 LP FPGA Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ13; CCIN 59AB)
On modern IBM System p servers, the accelerator card can use the new
CAPI interface. Install the libcxl
library into the toplevel genwqe-user directory and build the library
via make before compiling the genwqe tools.
If you like to contribute to this project, please fill out and sign one of our contributor license agreements to be found in /licenses and send this back to us before sending us contributions.
Additional documentation can be found at the IBM Knowledgecenter. A programming and usage guide for the hardware accelerated zlib can be downloaded here: Generic Work Queue Engine (GenWQE) Application Programming Guide.
Possible distributors: If you take a snapshot of this into one of your releases, please let us know such that we can sync up testing. Thanks.