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dpacc architecture
review the comments made by Ola
It is clarified that hio enabling pass-through access to hardware is not capable to provide binary portability for VNFs. Since binary portability is specified as a should-have requirement for dpacc, it is acceptable to include hio with pass-through access to provide an option to a VNF for better performance. A note is added to Section 2.1.1.4.
Question raise to the SRL role in packet forwarding/switching path in Section 2.1.2.3. Suggestions are made to add packet flow chart/arrows to clarify the paths of different cases (e.g. where SRL does packet forwarding or switching and as depicted in Figure 4) to see if there is any remaining issues.
Question regarding confining hio@host to be accessed only by host SAL. The context is confined to host interface, there is another description for hio@guest in Section 2.1.1.4.
Brief introduction of host AML in Section 2.1.2.5

Section 3 the architecture is described, where a dedicated management function is added for accelerator resource orchestration.
Section 5 gives a introduction of Openstack implementation, EPA features and clarifies the considerations for adding a standalone management controller instead of relying solely on Nova extensions.
A new openstack project Nomad is initiated to implement this idea and several organizations shows interest.