backfill: skip external tenant under deadlock in vector backfill test

`TestVectorIndexMergingDuringBackfillWithPrefix` is rather intensive,
and we've seen a couple of failures due to general overload in the
external-process mode under deadlock, so we'll just disable that mode
under deadlock. Alternative idea I had was to exempt the tenant from
rate limiting, but I wasn't able to reproduce the failure on gceworker,
so I couldn't verify that it worked and decided to not go with it.

Release note: None

Author: yuzefovich

pkg/base/test_server_args.go

@@ -565,6 +565,12 @@ func TestDoesNotWorkWithExternalProcessMode(issueNumber int) DefaultTestTenantOp
 	return testSkippedForExternalProcessMode(issueNumber)
 }
 
+// TestSkipForExternalProcessMode disables selecting the external process
+// virtual cluster for tests that are not applicable to that mode.
+func TestSkipForExternalProcessMode() DefaultTestTenantOptions {
+	return testSkippedForExternalProcessMode(0 /* issueNumber */)
+}
+
 func testSkippedForExternalProcessMode(issueNumber int) DefaultTestTenantOptions {
 	return DefaultTestTenantOptions{
 		testBehavior:           ttSharedProcess,

pkg/sql/backfill/backfill_test.go

@@ -346,6 +346,13 @@ func TestVectorIndexMergingDuringBackfillWithPrefix(t *testing.T) {
 	blockBackfill := make(chan struct{})
 	backfillBlocked := make(chan struct{})
 
+	var testTenant base.DefaultTestTenantOptions
+	if syncutil.DeadlockEnabled {
+		// The cluster can get overloaded under deadlock with external process
+		// mode.
+		testTenant = base.TestSkipForExternalProcessMode()
+	}
+
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	srv, db, _ := serverutils.StartServer(t, base.TestServerArgs{
 		Knobs: base.TestingKnobs{
@@ -357,6 +364,7 @@ func TestVectorIndexMergingDuringBackfillWithPrefix(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		DefaultTestTenant: testTenant,
 	})
 	defer srv.Stopper().Stop(ctx)
 	sqlDB := sqlutils.MakeSQLRunner(db)