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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 python
"""Test the running system for features availability. Exit with zero
if all features are there, non-zero otherwise. If a feature name is
prefixed with "no-", the absence of feature is tested.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import hghave
import optparse
import os
import sys

checks = hghave.checks

def list_features():
    for name, feature in sorted(checks.items()):
        desc = feature[1]
        print(name + ':', desc)

def test_features():
    failed = 0
    for name, feature in checks.items():
        check, _ = feature
        try:
            check()
        except Exception as e:
            print("feature %s failed:  %s" % (name, e))
            failed += 1
    return failed

parser = optparse.OptionParser("%prog [options] [features]")
parser.add_option("--test-features", action="store_true",
                  help="test available features")
parser.add_option("--list-features", action="store_true",
                  help="list available features")

def _loadaddon():
    if 'TESTDIR' in os.environ:
        # loading from '.' isn't needed, because `hghave` should be
        # running at TESTTMP in this case
        path = os.environ['TESTDIR']
    else:
        path = '.'

    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(path, 'hghaveaddon.py')):
        return

    sys.path.insert(0, path)
    try:
        import hghaveaddon
        assert hghaveaddon  # silence pyflakes
    except BaseException as inst:
        sys.stderr.write('failed to import hghaveaddon.py from %r: %s\n'
                         % (path, inst))
        sys.exit(2)
    sys.path.pop(0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    options, args = parser.parse_args()
    _loadaddon()
    if options.list_features:
        list_features()
        sys.exit(0)

    if options.test_features:
        sys.exit(test_features())

    hghave.require(args)