Re: iotests 041 intermittent failure (netbsd)

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 12:22:26PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 4/9/21 11:43 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Just hit this (presumably intermittent) 041 failure running
> > the build-and-test on the tests/vm netbsd setup. Does it look
> > familiar to anybody?
> 
> This one is known as the mysterious failure:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-block@nongnu.org/msg73321.html

If the test has been flakey with no confirmed fix since Sept 2020,
then it is well overdue to be switched to disabled by default, at
least on the platforms it is known to be flakey on.

Non-determinsitic failures accumulate until you find yourself in
a situation where its impossible to get CI to pass. We must be
aggressive in either (a) fixing non-deterministic failures promptly,
or (b) disabling the test until someone has time to work on a fix.


Regards,
Daniel
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