[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Adding an event loop in RPM to run asynchronous operations. (#258)

[Jeff Johnson]

And one more try at speeding up fsync-on-close by adding more threads that can block:
```
        eio_set_min_parallel(512);
        eio_set_max_idle(512);
```

With 512 (the default is 4) backend threads that can block, the kernel install time is
```
$ sudo /usr/bin/time ./rpm -U --root=/var/tmp/xxx --nodeps --force kernel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
...
5.77user 1.10system 0:17.79elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 37968maxresident)k
0inputs+300120outputs (0major+21579minor)pagefuls 0swaps
```

And both fdatasync+fsync are being run (by inspection).

So the reasoning in the previous comment (~2.5x slower for fsync-on-close, quite acceptable, etc) seems correct correct even if I had a brain fart while tinkering ;-)

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