Implement an fd pool to get real AIO with posix-aio

This patch implements a simple fd pool to allow many AIO requests with
posix-aio.  The result is significantly improved performance (identical to that
reported for linux-aio) for both cache=on and cache=off.

The fundamental problem with posix-aio is that it limits itself to one thread
per-file descriptor.  I don't know why this is, but this patch provides a simple
mechanism to work around this (duplicating the file descriptor).

This isn't a great solution, but it seems like a reasonable intermediate step
between posix-aio and a custom thread-pool to replace it.

Ryan Harper will be posting some performance analysis he did comparing posix-aio
with fd pooling against linux-aio.  The size of the posix-aio thread pool and
the fd pool were largely determined by him based on this analysis.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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