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@@ -60,10 +60,11 @@ The Controller is responsible for maintaining the resource map (i.e. the mapping
from physical resources to virtual resources), accepting update requests for the
resource state(s) (exposing as provider API), and sending all failure events
regarding virtual resources to the Notifier. Optionally, the Controller has the
-ability to poison the state of virtual resources mapping to physical resources
-for which it has received failure notifications from the Inspector. The
-Controller also re-calculates the capacity of the NVFI when receiving a failure
-notification for a physical resource.
+ability to force the state of a given physical resource to down in the resource
+mapping when it receives failure notifications from the Inspector for that
+given physical resource.
+The Controller also re-calculates the capacity of the NVFI when receiving a
+failure notification for a physical resource.
In a real-world deployment, the VIM may have several controllers, one for each
resource type, such as Nova, Neutron and Cinder in OpenStack. Each controller