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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

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os

from . import (
    encoding,
    pycompat,
    util,
    win32,
)

try:
    import _winreg as winreg
    winreg.CloseKey
except ImportError:
    import winreg

# MS-DOS 'more' is the only pager available by default on Windows.
fallbackpager = 'more'

def systemrcpath():
    '''return default os-specific hgrc search path'''
    rcpath = []
    filename = win32.executablepath()
    # Use mercurial.ini found in directory with hg.exe
    progrc = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filename), 'mercurial.ini')
    rcpath.append(progrc)
    # Use hgrc.d found in directory with hg.exe
    progrcd = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filename), 'hgrc.d')
    if os.path.isdir(progrcd):
        for f, kind in util.listdir(progrcd):
            if f.endswith('.rc'):
                rcpath.append(os.path.join(progrcd, f))
    # else look for a system rcpath in the registry
    value = util.lookupreg('SOFTWARE\\Mercurial', None,
                           winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
    if not isinstance(value, str) or not value:
        return rcpath
    value = util.localpath(value)
    for p in value.split(pycompat.ospathsep):
        if p.lower().endswith('mercurial.ini'):
            rcpath.append(p)
        elif os.path.isdir(p):
            for f, kind in util.listdir(p):
                if f.endswith('.rc'):
                    rcpath.append(os.path.join(p, f))
    return rcpath

def userrcpath():
    '''return os-specific hgrc search path to the user dir'''
    home = os.path.expanduser('~')
    path = [os.path.join(home, 'mercurial.ini'),
            os.path.join(home, '.hgrc')]
    userprofile = encoding.environ.get('USERPROFILE')
    if userprofile and userprofile != home:
        path.append(os.path.join(userprofile, 'mercurial.ini'))
        path.append(os.path.join(userprofile, '.hgrc'))
    return path

def termsize(ui):
    return win32.termsize()