Overview:
Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology (Intel(R) QAT) provides hardware
acceleration for offloading security, authentication and compression
services from the CPU, thus significantly increasing the performance and
efficiency of standard platform solutions.
This commit introduces:
- Quick Assist API update for partial decompress and zero padding.
- UIO support locking simplification- Refactor of UIO locking.
- Fixed VF driver hotplug- VF driver hotplug fix.
- Minor code style fixes for firmware API.
Patch co-authored by: Krzysztof Zdziarski <krzysztofx.zdziarski@intel.com>
Patch co-authored by: Michal Gulbicki <michalx.gulbicki@intel.com>
Patch co-authored by: Piotr Kasierski <piotrx.kasierski@intel.com>
Patch co-authored by: Karol Grzadziel <karolx.grzadziel@intel.com>
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation