Revert "do not apply asyncio patch for tornado >=6.1" #6052
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revert #5907
While tornado 6.1 adds support for running on proactor, avoiding an error, I think it's still better to use Selector since it avoids putting add_reader / writer in a thread.
Since ~all of our events are via add/remove_reader, keeping those on the main thread still seems preferable.