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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

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Testing obsolescence markers push: Cases A.7
============================================

Mercurial pushes obsolescences markers relevant to the "pushed-set", the set of
all changesets that requested to be "in sync" after the push (even if they are
already on both side).

This test belongs to a series of tests checking such set is properly computed
and applied. This does not tests "obsmarkers" discovery capabilities.

Category A: simple cases
TestCase 7: markers one non targeted common changeset

A.7 non targeted common changeset
=================================

.. {{{
..    ⇠◕ A
..     |
..     ● O
.. }}}
..
.. Markers exist from:
..
..  * Chain from A
..
.. Command run:
..
..  * hg push -r O
..
.. Expected exchange:
..
..  * ø

Setup
-----

  $ . $TESTDIR/testlib/exchange-obsmarker-util.sh

Initial

  $ setuprepos A.7
  creating test repo for test case A.7
  - pulldest
  - main
  - pushdest
  cd into `main` and proceed with env setup
  $ cd main
  $ mkcommit A
  $ hg push -q ../pushdest
  $ hg push -q ../pulldest
  $ hg debugobsolete aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa `getid 'desc(A)'`
  $ hg log -G --hidden
  @  f5bc6836db60 (draft): A
  |
  o  a9bdc8b26820 (public): O
  
  $ inspect_obsmarkers
  obsstore content
  ================
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa f5bc6836db60e308a17ba08bf050154ba9c4fad7 0 (Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000) {'user': 'test'}
  $ cd ..
  $ cd ..

Actual Test
-----------------------------------

  $ dotest A.7 O
  ## Running testcase A.7
  # testing echange of "O" (a9bdc8b26820)
  ## initial state
  # obstore: main
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa f5bc6836db60e308a17ba08bf050154ba9c4fad7 0 (Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000) {'user': 'test'}
  # obstore: pushdest
  # obstore: pulldest
  ## pushing "O" from main to pushdest
  pushing to pushdest
  searching for changes
  no changes found
  ## post push state
  # obstore: main
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa f5bc6836db60e308a17ba08bf050154ba9c4fad7 0 (Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000) {'user': 'test'}
  # obstore: pushdest
  # obstore: pulldest
  ## pulling "a9bdc8b26820" from main into pulldest
  pulling from main
  no changes found
  ## post pull state
  # obstore: main
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa f5bc6836db60e308a17ba08bf050154ba9c4fad7 0 (Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000) {'user': 'test'}
  # obstore: pushdest
  # obstore: pulldest