[raisingchris2026]

Fixes #1532.

With tornado 5 and later, the kernel's own loop is asyncio and already running, so loop_asyncio returns at once (if loop.is_running(): return). enter_eventloop still reschedules it with call_later(0.001, ...), so after %gui asyncio the kernel wakes about a thousand times a second and does nothing. The task count doesn't grow (that's just task numbering going up), but the CPU use does.

This makes enter_eventloop return early when the chosen loop is loop_asyncio. %gui asyncio still works and kernel.eventloop is still set, so nothing changes for users: background asyncio tasks run, %gui / %gui asyncio toggle as before, and %gui tk after it still says "Cannot activate multiple GUI eventloops". I kept the integration rather than deleting it, as the issue suggests, so notebooks that run %gui asyncio don't start raising "Invalid GUI request". Happy to delete it instead if you'd prefer.

Two commits: the first adds a test (fails on main: 87 call_later calls in 0.1 s on my last run), the second is the fix.

What I ran (Linux, Python 3.12.16, tornado 6.6, pyzmq 27.3.0, IPython 9.18.1, main at f87d0e0):

• pytest -q with the repo's settings: 231 passed, 18 skipped (rerun today).
• ruff check and ruff format --check on both files: clean.
• A real kernel via jupyter_client, CPU seconds read with os.times() every 5 s after %gui asyncio: 7.4.0 went 0.48 → 1.02 → 1.60 → 2.13 → 2.68 (about 11% of a core while idle); with this change, 0.46 → 0.48 → 0.48 → 0.49 → 0.50.
• The same two checks with --IPKernelApp.trio_loop=True (trio 0.35.0), since there the tornado loop runs on a background thread: 7.4.0 went 0.50 → 1.04 → 1.59 → 2.11 → 2.63; with this change, 0.49 → 0.50 → 0.50 → 0.51 → 0.52. Behaviour (background task, %gui toggles, %gui tk error) was the same line for line before and after.

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