flaky CI test: acpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits
The Avocado test acpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits is very flaky: recent examples of failed jobs:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5870498204 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5870498202 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5869005201
Logs available eg here:
and suggest that the test was still running when it timed out after approximately one minute. tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py tries to set 'timeout = 200' so it's not clear to me where this 1 minute timeout has come from -- perhaps the timeout annotation is in the wrong place?
We should first try to make sure the test timeout of 200 is actually used; failing that we can disable the test as flaky.
Example of a job where the test passes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5871332636 In that case the test completed in 53.59s.