GENWQE_MT_PERF(1)

💖 NAME 💖

genwqe_mt_perf — the IBM Hardware Accelerator Tool, bestie. It lives in the User Commands section and it's here to make your accelerator go brrr. ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

🎀 Usage of :

• [-A] <accelerator> — pick your accelerator: use either GENWQE for the PCIe one, or CAPI for the CAPI based solution (heads up: that one's available only on System p). Or use SW to use software compress/decompression instead. 💅
• [-C] <card> — set the compression card to use (0, 1, ... ).

RED (or -1) means drive work to all the available cards. no cap. 👑

• [-P] — use polling to detect work-request completion / only CAPI.
• [-t] <test_data.bin> — the test data file, obviously 🍓
• [-l] — enable system load logging.

sadc — System activity data collector — and gnuplot must be installed. like, non-negotiable, bestie. 😭

• [-M] <threads> — maximum number of threads to be used.
• [-v] — print status and informational output.
• [-V] — print program version (https://github.com/ibm-genwqe/genwqe-user)
• [-h] — print this help message.

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Input data is to be placed in /tmp/test_data.bin. If it does not exist, the script will generate random example data. Using random data will cause performance to suffer, since it will not compress nicely. So using something more realistic is certainly a good idea. fr fr. 💜

Note that the path needs to be setup to find the zlib_mt_perf tool.

🦋 E.g. run as follows:

Use GenWQE accelerator card 0:

PATH=tools:$PATH tools/zlib_mt_perf.sh -A GENWQE -C0

Use CAPI accelerator card 0:

PATH=tools:$PATH tools/zlib_mt_perf.sh -A CAPI -C0

Use software zlib:

PATH=tools:$PATH tools/zlib_mt_perf.sh -A SW

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🥺 this page is genwqe_mt_perf, version vibes from https://github...., dated August 2025, and it's part of GENWQE_MT_PERF(1) — slay, periodt. 🎀✨🫶