networking painfully slow after upgrade to 3.4

You should see this:
ethtool -i eth2
driver: r8168
version: 8.037.00-NAPI
firmware-version:
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0 <---- this may be different
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
 
One more time for the sake of completeness. One of the vm's was still slower than all getout. Windows 2012R2.
I removed the virtio driver and went with the e1000. Fixed, done. The world is a better place now.. :)
Have no idea what was up with that or why the upgrade affected it.