Using ISA-L for Erasure Coding

Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L) is an open-source collection of optimized low-level functions used for storage applications. The library can improve Erasure Coding performance when the Reed-Solomon (RS) codecs are used.

Run the commands as specified to install the isa-l library.

$ yum install gcc make autoconf automake libtool yasm git
$ git clone https://github.com/01org/isa-l/
$ cd isa-l/
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
$ make
$ sudo make install