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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ * Copyright(c) 2015-2018 Intel Corporation
+ */
+
+#ifndef _QAT_COMP_PMD_H_
+#define _QAT_COMP_PMD_H_
+
+#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_COMPRESSDEV
+
+#include <rte_compressdev.h>
+#include <rte_compressdev_pmd.h>
+
+#include "qat_device.h"
+
+/** private data structure for a QAT compression device.
+ * This QAT device is a device offering only a compression service,
+ * there can be one of these on each qat_pci_device (VF).
+ */
+struct qat_comp_dev_private {
+ struct qat_pci_device *qat_dev;
+ /**< The qat pci device hosting the service */
+ struct rte_compressdev *compressdev;
+ /**< The pointer to this compression device structure */
+ const struct rte_compressdev_capabilities *qat_dev_capabilities;
+ /* QAT device compression capabilities */
+ const struct rte_memzone *interm_buff_mz;
+ /**< The device's memory for intermediate buffers */
+ struct rte_mempool *xformpool;
+ /**< The device's pool for qat_comp_xforms */
+};
+
+int
+qat_comp_dev_create(struct qat_pci_device *qat_pci_dev);
+
+int
+qat_comp_dev_destroy(struct qat_pci_device *qat_pci_dev);
+
+#endif
+#endif /* _QAT_COMP_PMD_H_ */