Currently, when threads in the blocking pool shutdown due to being idle
the counter tracking threads is not decremented. This prevents new threads
from being spawned to replace the shutdown threads.
Provides a thread pool dedicated to running blocking operations (#588)
and update `tokio-fs` to use this pool.
In an effort to make incremental progress, this is an initial step
towards a final solution. First, it provides a very basic pool
implementation with the intend that the pool will be
replaced before the final release. Second, it updates `tokio-fs` to
always use this blocking pool instead of conditionally using
`threadpool::blocking`. Issue #588 contains additional discussion around
potential improvements to the "blocking for all" strategy.
The implementation provided here builds on work started in #954 and
continued in #1045. The general idea is th same as #1045, but the PR
improves on some of the details:
* The number of explicit operations tracked by `File` is reduced only to
the ones that could interact. All other ops are spawned on the
blocking pool without being tracked by the `File` instance.
* The `seek` implementation is not backed by a trait and `poll_seek`
function. This avoids the question of how to model non-blocking seeks
on top of a blocking file. In this patch, `seek` is represented as an
`async fn`. If the associated future is dropped before the caller
observes the return value, we make no effort to define the state in
which the file ends up.
Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault