Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] tests: enable meson test timeouts to improve debuggability

[Michael Tokarev]

23.01.2024 20:47, Thomas Huth:
> On 23/01/2024 17.50, Michael Tokarev wrote:
..

> > I'm picking this up for stable branches too, since there we have the same
> > problems in CI environment. In particular, bios-tables-test almost always
> > times out, even hitting retry doesn't help.  Let's see how it goes..
>
> Uh, wait, that does not make too much sense ... if bios-tables-test already times out *without* the additional meson-based timeouts, then adding the 
> meson timeouts won't help. bios-tables-test uses the manually coded timeout from boot_sector_test() that is currently set to 600 seconds. If you hit 
> that timeout, that likely means that something is really broken in your branch - or is it sometimes still succeeding?

I mistyped the test name as I was dealing with bios-tables-test at that
time in another context (unrelated).  Actual failing test in this case,
among others, is avocado acpi_smbios_bits, eg
 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5991505589#L231 which timed
out on multiple attempts.  In this example it took a bit less than 65s.
Subsequent retry succeeded in 51s:
 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5995055845#L212
but this run was at much later time, apparently when gitlab was had less
load, - as whole run was significantly faster.

So this particular failure has nothing to do with this patchset, and
the patchset does not do anything to it.

(I was in a bit distracted mode whole day today due to $ork issues).

Thanks,

/mjt