Revert "fix pytest-xidst version as 1.17 appears buggy (#16652)" (#16657)

This reverts commit ec6bf6d.

1.17.1 released that fixes

Author: jreback

ci/install_travis.sh

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ if [ -e ${REQ} ]; then
 fi
 
 time conda install -n pandas pytest
-time pip install pytest-xdist==1.16.0
+time pip install pytest-xdist
 
 if [ "$LINT" ]; then
    conda install flake8