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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

  $ hg init t
  $ cd t
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m test
  $ rm .hg/requires
  $ hg tip
  abort: unknown version (2) in revlog 00changelog.i!
  [255]
  $ echo indoor-pool > .hg/requires
  $ hg tip
  abort: repository requires features unknown to this Mercurial: indoor-pool!
  (see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement for more information)
  [255]
  $ echo outdoor-pool >> .hg/requires
  $ hg tip
  abort: repository requires features unknown to this Mercurial: indoor-pool outdoor-pool!
  (see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement for more information)
  [255]
  $ cd ..

Test checking between features supported locally and ones required in
another repository of push/pull/clone on localhost:

  $ mkdir supported-locally
  $ cd supported-locally

  $ hg init supported
  $ echo a > supported/a
  $ hg -R supported commit -Am '#0 at supported'
  adding a

  $ echo 'featuresetup-test' >> supported/.hg/requires
  $ cat > $TESTTMP/supported-locally/supportlocally.py <<EOF
  > from __future__ import absolute_import
  > from mercurial import extensions, localrepo
  > def featuresetup(ui, supported):
  >     for name, module in extensions.extensions(ui):
  >         if __name__ == module.__name__:
  >             # support specific feature locally
  >             supported |= {'featuresetup-test'}
  >             return
  > def uisetup(ui):
  >     localrepo.featuresetupfuncs.add(featuresetup)
  > EOF
  $ cat > supported/.hg/hgrc <<EOF
  > [extensions]
  > # enable extension locally
  > supportlocally = $TESTTMP/supported-locally/supportlocally.py
  > EOF
  $ hg -R supported status

  $ hg init push-dst
  $ hg -R supported push push-dst
  pushing to push-dst
  abort: required features are not supported in the destination: featuresetup-test
  [255]

  $ hg init pull-src
  $ hg -R pull-src pull supported
  pulling from supported
  abort: required features are not supported in the destination: featuresetup-test
  [255]

  $ hg clone supported clone-dst
  abort: repository requires features unknown to this Mercurial: featuresetup-test!
  (see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement for more information)
  [255]
  $ hg clone --pull supported clone-dst
  abort: required features are not supported in the destination: featuresetup-test
  [255]

  $ cd ..