Hi,
Maybe its too late for the 8.1 window, but I noticed that this patchset
fixes a segfault in qemu-system-ppc (and other 32 bits archs ?) introduced by
commit fb2c53c.
Therefore maybe it would be relevant to get merge it before 8.2.
I put the details below, please tell me if you prefer I file a
This commit fixes a bug in the stats registers of the e1000* devices
reporting higher bandwidth usage.
I'm adding a bit of context for affected Googlers:
The e1000e is the default NIC used by libvirt for Windows VMs.
This bug creates huge slowdowns on BITS transfers (used for
Windows Update for e
The bytes and packets counter registers are cleared on read.
Copying the "total counter" registers to the "good counter" registers has
side effects.
If the "total" register is never read by the OS, it only gets incremented.
This leads to exponential growth of the "good" register.
This commit incr