This means you can use `get_success(...)` anywhere regardless
of what kind of work needs to be done.
Spawning from adding some more async Rust things in
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/19846 and wanting something
more standard instead of the custom `till_deferred_has_result(...)` that
has crept in to a few files.
Alternative to https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/19867 spurred
on by [this
comment](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/19867#discussion_r3441774685)
from @erikjohnston
### How does this work?
Previously, `get_success(...)` just ran in a hot-loop advancing the
Twisted reactor clock which didn't give any time for other threads to do
some work or acquire the GIL if necessary (whenever there is a hand-off
from Rust to Python, we need the GIL).
Now, `get_success(...)` loops until we see a result (until we hit the
~0.1s real-time timeout). In the loop, we call
[`time.sleep(0)`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.sleep)
which will "Suspend execution of the calling thread [...]" (CPU and GIL)
to allow other threads to do some work. Then like before, we advance the
Twisted reactor clock to run any scheduled callbacks which includes
anything the other threads may have scheduled.
### Does this slow down the entire test suite?
Seems just as fast as before. There is minutes variance in what we had
before and after but both are within the same range of each other.
(see PR for actual before/after timings)
During the migration the automated script to update the copyright
headers accidentally got rid of some of the existing copyright lines.
Reinstate them.
We were incorrectly checking if the *local* token had been advanced, rather than the token for the remote instance.
In practice, I don't think this has caused any bugs due to where we use `wait_for_stream_position`, as critically we don't use it on instances that also write to the given streams (and so the local token will lag behind all remote tokens).
