This new facility will be used by future CLs in this series.

Change the only blocking call to netpoll to do the right thing when
netpoll returns an empty list.

Updates #6239
Updates #27707

Change-Id: I58b3c2903eda61a3698b1a4729ed0e81382bb1ed
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/171821
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Odeke <emm.odeke@gmail.com>