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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

Tests about metadataonlyctx

  $ hg init
  $ echo A > A
  $ hg commit -A A -m 'Add A'
  $ echo B > B
  $ hg commit -A B -m 'Add B'
  $ hg rm A
  $ echo C > C
  $ echo B2 > B
  $ hg add C -q
  $ hg commit -m 'Remove A'

  $ cat > metaedit.py <<EOF
  > from __future__ import absolute_import
  > from mercurial import context, pycompat, registrar
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
  > @command(b'metaedit')
  > def metaedit(ui, repo, arg):
  >     # Modify commit message to "FOO"
  >     with repo.wlock(), repo.lock(), repo.transaction(b'metaedit'):
  >         old = repo[b'.']
  >         kwargs = dict(s.split(b'=', 1) for s in arg.split(b';'))
  >         if 'parents' in kwargs:
  >             kwargs[b'parents'] = map(int, kwargs[b'parents'].split(b','))
  >         new = context.metadataonlyctx(repo, old,
  >                                       **pycompat.strkwargs(kwargs))
  >         new.commit()
  > EOF
  $ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'text=Changed'
  $ hg log -r tip
  changeset:   3:ad83e9e00ec9
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:3afb7afe6632
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     Changed
  
  $ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'parents=0' 2>&1 | egrep '^RuntimeError'
  RuntimeError: can't reuse the manifest: its p1 doesn't match the new ctx p1

  $ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'user=foo <[e-mail]>'
  $ hg log -r tip
  changeset:   4:1f86eaeca92b
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:3afb7afe6632
  user:        foo <[e-mail]>
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     Remove A