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merge: mark file gets as not thread safe (issue5933)

In default installs, this has the effect of disabling the thread-based
worker on Windows when manifesting files in the working directory. My
measurements have shown that with revlog-based repositories, Mercurial
spends a lot of CPU time in revlog code resolving file data. This ends
up incurring a lot of context switching across threads and slows down
`hg update` operations when going from an empty working directory to
the tip of the repo.

On mozilla-unified (246,351 files) on an i7-6700K (4+4 CPUs):

before: 487s wall
after:  360s wall (equivalent to worker.enabled=false)
cpus=2: 379s wall

Even with only 2 threads, the thread pool is still slower.

The introduction of the thread-based worker (02b36e860e0b) states that
it resulted in a "~50%" speedup for `hg sparse --enable-profile` and
`hg sparse --disable-profile`. This disagrees with my measurement
above. I theorize a few reasons for this:

1) Removal of files from the working directory is I/O - not CPU - bound
   and should benefit from a thread pool (unless I/O is insanely fast
   and the GIL release is near instantaneous). So tests like `hg sparse
   --enable-profile` may exercise deletion throughput and aren't good
   benchmarks for worker tasks that are CPU heavy.
2) The patch was authored by someone at Facebook. The results were
   likely measured against a repository using remotefilelog. And I
   believe that revision retrieval during working directory updates with
   remotefilelog will often use a remote store, thus being I/O and not
   CPU bound. This probably resulted in an overstated performance gain.

Since there appears to be a need to enable the thread-based worker with
some stores, I've made the flagging of file gets as thread safe
configurable. I've made it experimental because I don't want to formalize
a boolean flag for this option and because this attribute is best
captured against the store implementation. But we don't have a proper
store API for this yet. I'd rather cross this bridge later.

It is possible there are revlog-based repositories that do benefit from
a thread-based worker. I didn't do very comprehensive testing. If there
are, we may want to devise a more proper algorithm for whether to use
the thread-based worker, including possibly config options to limit the
number of threads to use. But until I see evidence that justifies
complexity, simplicity wins.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3963

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# A simple script for opening merge conflicts in the editor.
# Use the following Mercurial settings to enable it.
#
# [ui]
# merge = editmerge
#
# [merge-tools]
# editmerge.args=$output
# editmerge.check=changed
# editmerge.premerge=keep

FILE="$1"

getlines() {
  grep -n "^<<<<<<" "$FILE" | cut -f1 -d:
}

# editor preference loosely based on https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/editor
# hg showconfig is at the bottom though, since it's slow to run (0.15 seconds)
ED="$HGEDITOR"
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  ED="$VISUAL"
fi
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  ED="$EDITOR"
fi
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  ED="$(hg showconfig ui.editor)"
fi
if [ "$ED" = "" ] ; then
  echo "merge failed - unable to find editor"
  exit 1
fi

if [ "$ED" = "emacs" ] || [ "$ED" = "nano" ] || [ "$ED" = "vim" ] ; then
  FIRSTLINE="$(getlines | head -n 1)"
  PREVIOUSLINE=""

  # open the editor to the first conflict until there are no more
  # or the user stops editing the file
  while [ ! "$FIRSTLINE" = "" ] && [ ! "$FIRSTLINE" = "$PREVIOUSLINE" ] ; do
    $ED "+$FIRSTLINE" "$FILE"
    PREVIOUSLINE="$FIRSTLINE"
    FIRSTLINE="$(getlines | head -n 1)"
  done
else
  $ED "$FILE"
fi

# get the line numbers of the remaining conflicts
CONFLICTS="$(getlines | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/, /g')"
if [ ! "$CONFLICTS" = "" ] ; then
  echo "merge failed - resolve the conflicts (line $CONFLICTS) then use 'hg resolve --mark'"
  exit 1
fi

exit 0