Re: acpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits test intermittently times out

[Ani Sinha]

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.

The one
> you point to seems to be stuck in SMI latency tests:
>
> ==== SMI latency test ====
> 16:45:49 DEBUG|
> Warning: touching the keyboard can affect the results of this test.
> 16:45:50 DEBUG|
> Starting test. Wait here, I will be back in 15 seconds.
>
> If this is consistently timing out here, we can disable the smi
> latency test. This test was a little problematic from the get go.
>
> Meanwhile I have assigned
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2077 to myself and will
> take a look.
>
> > As far as I can
> > see, the test is still running when after about a minute it
> > gets timed out. (Though the python tracebacks in the logs are
> > not easy for me to interpret, so I might be wrong). This I find
> > a bit confusing, because tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py sets
> > "timeout = 200". So maybe that isn't taking effect properly?
> >
> > Does anybody have time to investigate this? If not, we can disable
> > the test as flaky until somebody does have the time.
> >
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
> >