Re: acpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits test intermittently times out

[Peter Maydell]

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?

Thanks for looking into the issue.

-- PMM