I understand that the SPAN/RSPAN support from physical switches does not have 
filtering support.  It seems make sense when traffic mirroring implemented in 
physical switch hardware.  Now with Open vSwitch, it might be better to support 
filtering on SPAN/RSPAN to reduce the monitoring traffic bandwidth.  I do not 
have enough knowledge on the OVS design and implementation.  So here are my 
questions for OVS experts,
(1) Will filtering support to OVS port mirroring cause performance concern ?
(2) Is anyone strongly against this idea ?  If yes, will you mind to explain.
(3) Is anyone interested to add this in OVS ?  If someone will like to add it, 
will OVS accept it ?
(4) Will any OVS expert like to give some high level idea about how hard this 
could be done ?  Some high level design idea will be very helpful.

Best Regards,
Bao Wang

  

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