program/GF-DUMP: Shield ping processing from traffic to Glusterfs

Program

Since poller thread bears the brunt of execution till the request is
handed over to io-threads, poller thread experiencies lock
contention(s) in the control flow till io-threads, which slows it
down. This delay invariably affects reading ping requests from network
and responding to them, resulting in increased ping latencies, which
sometimes results in a ping-timer-expiry on client leading to
disconnect of transport. So, this patch aims to free up poller thread
from executing code of Glusterfs Program. We do this by making

* Glusterfs Program registering itself asking rpcsvc to execute its
  actors in its own threads.
* GF-DUMP Program registering itself asking rpcsvc to _NOT_ execute
  its actors in its own threads. Otherwise program's ownthreads become
  bottleneck in processing ping traffic. This means that poller thread
  reads a ping packet, invokes its actor and hands the response msg to
  transport queue.

Change-Id: I526268c10bdd5ef93f322a4f95385137550a6a49
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra G <rgowdapp@redhat.com>
BUG: 1421938
Reviewed-on: https://review.gluster.org/17105
NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
Reviewed-by: Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Darcy <jeff@pl.atyp.us>

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