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revlog: introduce an experimental flag to slice chunks reads when too sparse

Delta chains can become quite sparse if there is a lot of unrelated data between
relevant pieces. Right now, revlog always reads all the necessary data for the
delta chain in one single read. This can lead to a lot of unrelated data to be
read (see issue5482 for more details).
One can use the `experimental.maxdeltachainspan` option with a large value
(or -1) to easily produce a very sparse delta chain.

This change introduces the ability to slice the chunks retrieval into  multiple
reads, skipping large sections of unrelated data. Preliminary testing shows
interesting results. For example the peak memory consumption to read a manifest
on a large repository is reduced from 600MB to 250MB (200MB without
maxdeltachainspan). However, the slicing itself and the multiple reads can have
an negative impact on performance. This is why the new feature is hidden behind
an experimental flag.

Future changesets will add various parameters to control the slicing heuristics.
We hope to experiment a wide variety of repositories during 4.4 and hopefully
turn the feature on by default in 4.5.
As a first try, the algorithm itself is prone to deep changes. However, we wish
to define APIs and have a baseline to work on.

  $ hg init test
  $ cd test
  $ echo foo>foo
  $ hg addremove
  adding foo
  $ hg commit -m "1"

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions

  $ hg clone . ../branch
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd ../branch
  $ hg co
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo bar>>foo
  $ hg commit -m "2"

  $ cd ../test

  $ hg pull ../branch
  pulling from ../branch
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  new changesets 30aff43faee1
  (run 'hg update' to get a working copy)

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions

  $ hg co
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cat foo
  foo
  bar

  $ hg manifest --debug
  6f4310b00b9a147241b071a60c28a650827fb03d 644   foo

update to rev 0 with a date

  $ hg upd -d foo 0
  abort: you can't specify a revision and a date
  [255]

  $ cd ..

update with worker processes

#if no-windows

  $ cat <<EOF > forceworker.py
  > from mercurial import extensions, worker
  > def nocost(orig, ui, costperop, nops):
  >     return worker._numworkers(ui) > 1
  > def uisetup(ui):
  >     extensions.wrapfunction(worker, 'worthwhile', nocost)
  > EOF

  $ hg init worker
  $ cd worker
  $ cat <<EOF >> .hg/hgrc
  > [extensions]
  > forceworker = $TESTTMP/forceworker.py
  > [worker]
  > numcpus = 4
  > EOF
  $ for i in `$PYTHON $TESTDIR/seq.py 1 100`; do
  >   echo $i > $i
  > done
  $ hg ci -qAm 'add 100 files'

  $ hg update null
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 100 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg update -v | grep 100
  getting 100
  100 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd ..

#endif