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CONTAP-556247: Slow compression/decompression on volumes after being moved from AFF A400 to a QAT-equipped model

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  • After migrating volumes from an AFF-A400 to Intel QAT-equipped systems, customers might experience read latency and increased CPU usage during read operations.
  • This performance degradation is observed on volumes containing compressed data with the lzrw1a algorithm, which is not supported for hardware decompression on QAT-equipped platforms.

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