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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

/*
 exewrapper.c - wrapper for calling a python script on Windows

 Copyright 2012 Adrian Buehlmann <[e-mail]> and others

 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

#include "hgpythonlib.h"

#ifdef __GNUC__
int strcat_s(char *d, size_t n, const char *s)
{
	return !strncat(d, s, n);
}
int strcpy_s(char *d, size_t n, const char *s)
{
	return !strncpy(d, s, n);
}
#endif

static char pyscript[MAX_PATH + 10];
static char pyhome[MAX_PATH + 10];
static char envpyhome[MAX_PATH + 10];
static char pydllfile[MAX_PATH + 10];

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	char *p;
	int ret;
	int i;
	int n;
	char **pyargv;
	WIN32_FIND_DATA fdata;
	HANDLE hfind;
	const char *err;
	HMODULE pydll;
	void(__cdecl * Py_SetPythonHome)(char *home);
	int(__cdecl * Py_Main)(int argc, char *argv[]);

	if (GetModuleFileName(NULL, pyscript, sizeof(pyscript)) == 0) {
		err = "GetModuleFileName failed";
		goto bail;
	}

	p = strrchr(pyscript, '.');
	if (p == NULL) {
		err = "malformed module filename";
		goto bail;
	}
	*p = 0; /* cut trailing ".exe" */
	strcpy_s(pyhome, sizeof(pyhome), pyscript);

	hfind = FindFirstFile(pyscript, &fdata);
	if (hfind != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
		/* pyscript exists, close handle */
		FindClose(hfind);
	} else {
		/* file pyscript isn't there, take <pyscript>exe.py */
		strcat_s(pyscript, sizeof(pyscript), "exe.py");
	}

	pydll = NULL;

	p = strrchr(pyhome, '\\');
	if (p == NULL) {
		err = "can't find backslash in module filename";
		goto bail;
	}
	*p = 0; /* cut at directory */

	/* check for private Python of HackableMercurial */
	strcat_s(pyhome, sizeof(pyhome), "\\hg-python");

	hfind = FindFirstFile(pyhome, &fdata);
	if (hfind != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
		/* Path .\hg-python exists. We are probably in HackableMercurial
		scenario, so let's load python dll from this dir. */
		FindClose(hfind);
		strcpy_s(pydllfile, sizeof(pydllfile), pyhome);
		strcat_s(pydllfile, sizeof(pydllfile), "\\" HGPYTHONLIB ".dll");
		pydll = LoadLibrary(pydllfile);
		if (pydll == NULL) {
			err = "failed to load private Python DLL " HGPYTHONLIB
			      ".dll";
			goto bail;
		}
		Py_SetPythonHome =
		    (void *)GetProcAddress(pydll, "Py_SetPythonHome");
		if (Py_SetPythonHome == NULL) {
			err = "failed to get Py_SetPythonHome";
			goto bail;
		}
		Py_SetPythonHome(pyhome);
	}

	if (pydll == NULL) {
		pydll = LoadLibrary(HGPYTHONLIB ".dll");
		if (pydll == NULL) {
			err = "failed to load Python DLL " HGPYTHONLIB ".dll";
			goto bail;
		}
	}

	Py_Main = (void *)GetProcAddress(pydll, "Py_Main");
	if (Py_Main == NULL) {
		err = "failed to get Py_Main";
		goto bail;
	}

	/*
	Only add the pyscript to the args, if it's not already there. It may
	already be there, if the script spawned a child process of itself, in
	the same way as it got called, that is, with the pyscript already in
	place. So we optionally accept the pyscript as the first argument
	(argv[1]), letting our exe taking the role of the python interpreter.
	*/
	if (argc >= 2 && strcmp(argv[1], pyscript) == 0) {
		/*
		pyscript is already in the args, so there is no need to copy
		the args and we can directly call the python interpreter with
		the original args.
		*/
		return Py_Main(argc, argv);
	}

	/*
	Start assembling the args for the Python interpreter call. We put the
	name of our exe (argv[0]) in the position where the python.exe
	canonically is, and insert the pyscript next.
	*/
	pyargv = malloc((argc + 5) * sizeof(char *));
	if (pyargv == NULL) {
		err = "not enough memory";
		goto bail;
	}
	n = 0;
	pyargv[n++] = argv[0];
	pyargv[n++] = pyscript;

	/* copy remaining args from the command line */
	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
		pyargv[n++] = argv[i];
	/* argv[argc] is guaranteed to be NULL, so we forward that guarantee */
	pyargv[n] = NULL;

	ret = Py_Main(n, pyargv); /* The Python interpreter call */

	free(pyargv);
	return ret;

bail:
	fprintf(stderr, "abort: %s\n", err);
	return 255;
}