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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

test parents command

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

no working directory

  $ hg parents

  $ echo a > a
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg ci -Amab -d '0 0'
  adding a
  adding b
  $ echo a >> a
  $ hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
  $ echo b >> b
  $ hg ci -Amb -d '2 0'
  $ echo c > c
  $ hg ci -Amc -d '3 0'
  adding c
  $ hg up -C 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo d > c
  $ hg ci -Amc2 -d '4 0'
  adding c
  created new head
  $ hg up -C 3
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved


  $ hg parents
  changeset:   3:02d851b7e549
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  

  $ hg parents a
  changeset:   1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

hg parents c, single revision

  $ hg parents c
  changeset:   3:02d851b7e549
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  

  $ hg parents -r 3 c
  abort: 'c' not found in manifest!
  [255]

  $ hg parents -r 2
  changeset:   1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

  $ hg parents -r 2 a
  changeset:   1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

  $ hg parents -r 2 ../a
  abort: ../a not under root '$TESTTMP/repo'
  [255]


cd dir; hg parents -r 2 ../a

  $ mkdir dir
  $ cd dir
  $ hg parents -r 2 ../a
  changeset:   1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  
  $ hg parents -r 2 path:a
  changeset:   1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  
  $ cd ..

  $ hg parents -r 2 glob:a
  abort: can only specify an explicit filename
  [255]


merge working dir with 2 parents, hg parents c

  $ HGMERGE=true hg merge
  merging c
  0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg parents c
  changeset:   3:02d851b7e549
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  
  changeset:   4:48cee28d4b4e
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
  summary:     c2
  


merge working dir with 1 parent, hg parents

  $ hg up -C 2
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ HGMERGE=true hg merge -r 4
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg parents
  changeset:   2:6cfac479f009
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  
  changeset:   4:48cee28d4b4e
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
  summary:     c2
  

merge working dir with 1 parent, hg parents c

  $ hg parents c
  changeset:   4:48cee28d4b4e
  tag:         tip
  parent:      1:d786049f033a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
  summary:     c2
  

  $ cd ..