rust-status: cap the number of concurrent threads to 16

During benchmarking it was determined that the use of more threads is very
advantageous... until we use more than 16. This is most likely due to some
resource contention (thrashing, etc.). Until we have time to figure out and
fix the underlying cause, let's just cap at 16 threads.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12384

rust/hg-core/src/dirstate_tree/status.rs

@@ -47,6 +47,17 b" pub fn status<'tree, 'on_disk: 'tree>("
     ignore_files: Vec<PathBuf>,
     options: StatusOptions,
 ) -> Result<(DirstateStatus<'on_disk>, Vec<PatternFileWarning>), StatusError> {
+    // Force the global rayon threadpool to not exceed 16 concurrent threads.
+    // This is a stop-gap measure until we figure out why using more than 16
+    // threads makes `status` slower for each additional thread.
+    // We use `ok()` in case the global threadpool has already been instantiated
+    // in `rhg` or some other caller.
+    // TODO find the underlying cause and fix it, then remove this.
+    rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
+        .num_threads(16)
+        .build_global()
+        .ok();
+
     let (ignore_fn, warnings, patterns_changed): (IgnoreFnType, _, _) =
         if options.list_ignored || options.list_unknown {
             let mut hasher = Sha1::new();