service: introduce service cores concept

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_08.rst

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+* **Added Service Core functionality.**
+
+  The service core functionality added to EAL allows DPDK to run services such
+  as SW PMDs on lcores without the application manually running them. The
+  service core infrastructure allows flexibility of running multiple services
+  on the same service lcore, and provides the application with powerful APIs to
+  configure the mapping from service lcores to services.
+
 * **Added Generic Receive Offload API.**
 
   Generic Receive Offload (GRO) API supports to reassemble TCP/IPv4