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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

# Read the output of a "svn log --xml" command on stdin, parse it and
# print a subset of attributes common to all svn versions tested by
# hg.
from __future__ import absolute_import
import sys
import xml.dom.minidom

def xmltext(e):
    return ''.join(c.data for c
                   in e.childNodes
                   if c.nodeType == c.TEXT_NODE)

def parseentry(entry):
    e = {}
    e['revision'] = entry.getAttribute('revision')
    e['author'] = xmltext(entry.getElementsByTagName('author')[0])
    e['msg'] = xmltext(entry.getElementsByTagName('msg')[0])
    e['paths'] = []
    paths = entry.getElementsByTagName('paths')
    if paths:
        paths = paths[0]
        for p in paths.getElementsByTagName('path'):
            action = p.getAttribute('action')
            path = xmltext(p)
            frompath = p.getAttribute('copyfrom-path')
            fromrev = p.getAttribute('copyfrom-rev')
            e['paths'].append((path, action, frompath, fromrev))
    return e

def parselog(data):
    entries = []
    doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(data)
    for e in doc.getElementsByTagName('logentry'):
        entries.append(parseentry(e))
    return entries

def printentries(entries):
    fp = sys.stdout
    for e in entries:
        for k in ('revision', 'author', 'msg'):
            fp.write(('%s: %s\n' % (k, e[k])).encode('utf-8'))
        for path, action, fpath, frev in sorted(e['paths']):
            frominfo = ''
            if frev:
                frominfo = ' (from %s@%s)' % (fpath, frev)
            p = ' %s %s%s\n' % (action, path, frominfo)
            fp.write(p.encode('utf-8'))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    data = sys.stdin.read()
    entries = parselog(data)
    printentries(entries)