Rename threads to indicate that they are explicitly for the driver

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The driver spawns a number of threads that don't make it clear that they are coming from the driver. For example the "New I/O Worker #X" and "New I/O boss" threads are tied to the driver's use of Netty and not providing a naming scheme. Since netty is very popular it's possible that a user may be using netty for something else in their application and it may become confusing what threads are being used for.

Some other examples found:

  1. Reconnection-X

  2. Reaper-X

It would be good to change these to be patterned off of some of the other threads spawned like 'Cassandra Java Driver worker-X' and "Cassandra Java Driver blocking tasks worker-X"

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Andy Tolbert 
March 23, 2015 at 7:07 PM
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Will be pulled in as part of the Netty 4.x upgrade ().

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Created December 12, 2014 at 3:35 PM
Updated April 14, 2015 at 10:17 PM
Resolved March 30, 2015 at 2:03 PM