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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

# rcutil.py - utilities about config paths, special config sections etc.
#
#  Copyright Mercurial Contributors
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os

from . import (
    encoding,
    pycompat,
    util,
)

if pycompat.iswindows:
    from . import scmwindows as scmplatform
else:
    from . import scmposix as scmplatform

fallbackpager = scmplatform.fallbackpager
systemrcpath = scmplatform.systemrcpath
userrcpath = scmplatform.userrcpath

def _expandrcpath(path):
    '''path could be a file or a directory. return a list of file paths'''
    p = util.expandpath(path)
    if os.path.isdir(p):
        join = os.path.join
        return [join(p, f) for f, k in util.listdir(p) if f.endswith('.rc')]
    return [p]

def envrcitems(env=None):
    '''Return [(section, name, value, source)] config items.

    The config items are extracted from environment variables specified by env,
    used to override systemrc, but not userrc.

    If env is not provided, encoding.environ will be used.
    '''
    if env is None:
        env = encoding.environ
    checklist = [
        ('EDITOR', 'ui', 'editor'),
        ('VISUAL', 'ui', 'editor'),
        ('PAGER', 'pager', 'pager'),
    ]
    result = []
    for envname, section, configname in checklist:
        if envname not in env:
            continue
        result.append((section, configname, env[envname], '$%s' % envname))
    return result

def defaultrcpath():
    '''return rc paths in default.d'''
    path = []
    defaultpath = os.path.join(util.datapath, 'default.d')
    if os.path.isdir(defaultpath):
        path = _expandrcpath(defaultpath)
    return path

def rccomponents():
    '''return an ordered [(type, obj)] about where to load configs.

    respect $HGRCPATH. if $HGRCPATH is empty, only .hg/hgrc of current repo is
    used. if $HGRCPATH is not set, the platform default will be used.

    if a directory is provided, *.rc files under it will be used.

    type could be either 'path' or 'items', if type is 'path', obj is a string,
    and is the config file path. if type is 'items', obj is a list of (section,
    name, value, source) that should fill the config directly.
    '''
    envrc = ('items', envrcitems())

    if 'HGRCPATH' in encoding.environ:
        # assume HGRCPATH is all about user configs so environments can be
        # overridden.
        _rccomponents = [envrc]
        for p in encoding.environ['HGRCPATH'].split(pycompat.ospathsep):
            if not p:
                continue
            _rccomponents.extend(('path', p) for p in _expandrcpath(p))
    else:
        normpaths = lambda paths: [('path', os.path.normpath(p)) for p in paths]
        _rccomponents = normpaths(defaultrcpath() + systemrcpath())
        _rccomponents.append(envrc)
        _rccomponents.extend(normpaths(userrcpath()))
    return _rccomponents

def defaultpagerenv():
    '''return a dict of default environment variables and their values,
    intended to be set before starting a pager.
    '''
    return {'LESS': 'FRX', 'LV': '-c'}