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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

#require svn13

  $ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > mq =
  > [diff]
  > nodates = 1
  > [subrepos]
  > allowed = true
  > svn:allowed = true
  > EOF

fn to create new repository, and cd into it
  $ mkrepo() {
  >     hg init $1
  >     cd $1
  >     hg qinit
  > }


handle svn subrepos safely

  $ svnadmin create svn-repo-2499

  $ SVNREPOPATH=`pwd`/svn-repo-2499/project
#if windows
  $ SVNREPOURL=file:///`$PYTHON -c "import urllib, sys; sys.stdout.write(urllib.quote(sys.argv[1]))" "$SVNREPOPATH"`
#else
  $ SVNREPOURL=file://`$PYTHON -c "import urllib, sys; sys.stdout.write(urllib.quote(sys.argv[1]))" "$SVNREPOPATH"`
#endif

  $ mkdir -p svn-project-2499/trunk
  $ svn import -qm 'init project' svn-project-2499 "$SVNREPOURL"

qnew on repo w/svn subrepo
  $ mkrepo repo-2499-svn-subrepo
  $ svn co "$SVNREPOURL"/trunk sub
  Checked out revision 1.
  $ echo 'sub = [svn]sub' >> .hgsub
  $ hg add .hgsub
  $ hg status -S -X '**/format'
  A .hgsub
  $ hg qnew -m0 0.diff
  $ cd sub
  $ echo a > a
  $ svn add a
  A         a
  $ svn st
  A*    a (glob)
  $ cd ..
  $ hg status -S        # doesn't show status for svn subrepos (yet)
  $ hg qnew -m1 1.diff
  abort: uncommitted changes in subrepository "sub"
  [255]

  $ cd ..