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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 serve

  $ hg init server
  $ hg serve -R server -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg1.pid -E ../error.log
  $ cat hg1.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS

Check basic fetching

  $ hg debugdownload "http://localhost:$HGPORT/?cmd=lookup&key=tip"
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  $ hg debugdownload  -o null.txt "http://localhost:$HGPORT/?cmd=lookup&key=null"
  $ cat null.txt
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Check the request is made from the usual Mercurial logic
(rev details, give different content if the request has a Mercurial user agent)

  $ get-with-headers.py --headeronly "localhost:$HGPORT" "rev/tip" content-type
  200 Script output follows
  content-type: text/html; charset=ascii
  $ hg debugdownload "http://localhost:$HGPORT/rev/tip"
  
  # HG changeset patch
  # User 
  # Date 0 0
  # Node ID 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  
  
  
  

Check other kind of compatible url

  $ hg debugdownload ./null.txt
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Test largefile URL
------------------

  $ cat << EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > largefiles=
  > EOF

  $ killdaemons.py
  $ rm -f error.log hg1.pid
  $ hg serve -R server -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg1.pid -E error.log
  $ cat hg1.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS

  $ hg -R server debuglfput null.txt
  a57b57b39ee4dc3da1e03526596007f480ecdbe8

  $ hg --traceback debugdownload "largefile://a57b57b39ee4dc3da1e03526596007f480ecdbe8" --config paths.default=http://localhost:$HGPORT/
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

from within a repository

  $ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT/ client
  no changes found
  updating to branch default
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd client
  $ hg path
  default = http://localhost:$HGPORT/
  $ hg debugdownload "largefile://a57b57b39ee4dc3da1e03526596007f480ecdbe8"
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  $ cd ..