Partitioned data compression using accelerator

摘要

In an embodiment, a processor includes a compression accelerator coupled to a plurality of hardware processing cores. The compression accelerator is to: receive input data to be compressed; select a particular intermediate format of a plurality of intermediate formats based on a type of compression software to be executed by at least one of the plurality of hardware processing cores; perform a duplicate string elimination operation on the input data to generate a partially compressed output in the particular intermediate format; and provide the partially compressed output in the particular intermediate format to the compression software, wherein the compression software is to perform an encoding operation on the partially compressed output to generate a final compressed output. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

主权项

1. A processor comprising:
a plurality of hardware processing cores; and a compression accelerator coupled to the plurality of hardware processing cores, the compression accelerator to:
receive input data to be compressed;select a particular intermediate format of a plurality of intermediate formats based on a type of compression software to be executed by at least one of the plurality of hardware processing cores;perform a duplicate string elimination operation on the input data to generate a partially compressed output in the particular intermediate format; andprovide the partially compressed output in the particular intermediate format to the compression software, wherein the compression software is to perform an encoding operation on the partially compressed output to generate a final compressed output.