diff --git a/test/test_arraycontext.py b/test/test_arraycontext.py
index 6080c5772c417cf34372ca4b9d817fd1ea58e226..49c56494eada957ca207c5bebd1f307c8f070098 100644
--- a/test/test_arraycontext.py
+++ b/test/test_arraycontext.py
@@ -1015,11 +1015,6 @@ def test_container_norm(actx_factory, ord):
     [(64, 7), (154, 12)]
     ])
 def test_flatten_array_container(actx_factory, shapes):
-    if np.prod(shapes) == 0:
-        # https://github.com/inducer/loopy/pull/497
-        # NOTE: only fails for the pytato array context at the moment
-        pytest.xfail("strides do not match in subary")
-
     actx = actx_factory()
 
     from arraycontext import flatten, unflatten