Re: acpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits test intermittently times out

[Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>]

> On 07-Jan-2024, at 9:56 PM, Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 5:39 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 at 05:41, Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 10:05 AM Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 12:11 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The avocado test acpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits seems to be
>>>>> flaky in CI -- sometimes it appears to time out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2077
>>>>> has the details (including links to jobs etc).
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have more data points in terms of the jobs that failed?
>>> 
>>> I just noticed that you attached three examples of failed tests. In
>>> all of them the test seems to be stuck at the ami latency test.
>> 
>> OK, if you think that subtest is suspicious, could you send a
>> patch that disables just that subpart, and we'll see if it helps?
> 
> I pushed the patches here:
> https://gitlab.com/anisinha/qemu/-/commits/disable-smilatency
> and ran the pipeline. It passed
> https://gitlab.com/anisinha/qemu/-/jobs/5878585312
> 
> and the smilatency test was not run:
> https://anisinha.gitlab.io/-/qemu/-/jobs/5878585312/artifacts/build/tests/results/latest/test-results/01-tests_avocado_acpi-bits.py_AcpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits/debug.log
> 
> Not sure what we can do to have some confidence that disabling the
> test got rid of the flakiness.

I ran the avocado jobs avocado-system-centos and avocado-system-opensuse a few times and all times they passed. So I sent out the patches. Hope this settles it.


> I can send out those two patches in the
> list.