Introduction ------------ This application allows writing files to an x86 host from a TILEncore-Gx PCIe card. The file name and data are sent over PCIe using the Tilera Packet Queue API from an aplication running on the Tilera processor. The original purpose is to write log files from Suricata (Intrusion Dectection System) on the x86 host's file system. Running The Logger ------------------ To run the application, set the TILERA_ROOT environment variable to point to a valide Tilera MDE, then do: make run The application should be started before the application on the Tile side that will be generating the log data. By default, queue number 0 is used. The --queue_index=N command line argument can be used to change the queue number. If more than one TILEncore-Gx PCIe card is installed, the --card=M argument changes to listening to card M. Caveats ------- Due to the fact that the host driver allocates 4MB physically contiguous memory for the packet queue ring buffer, it is possible that this allocation could fail on a host whose memory has been considerably fragmented. If the host program exits with the following error, reboot the host and run the test again. Host: Failed to open '/dev/tilegxpci%d/packet_queue/t2h/0': Cannot allocate memory