runtime: clarify the edge case of Builder::global_queue_interval()
#7605
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Motivation
If the interval is set to 1 then the schedulers will always execute tasks from the global queue. Tasks from the local queue will be executed only if the global queue is empty.
multi_thread scheduler:
tokio/tokio/src/runtime/scheduler/multi_thread/worker.rs
Lines 806 to 813 in 7127e25
I think this clarification is needed because of
at https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/7127e257a7d7025a5f6a62eb8aab81c2191f5cdb/tokio/src/runtime/builder.rs#L980C16-L981C54
With
1there is no fairness anymoreSolution
Add a sentence to the documentation about the special case of
global_queue_interval=1