runtime: start dedicated mark workers even if there's no work

Currently, findRunnable only considers running a mark worker if
there's work in the work queue. In principle, this can delay the start
of the desired number of dedicated mark workers if there's no work
pending. This is unlikely to occur in practice, since there should be
work queued from the scan phase, but if it were to come up, a CPU hog
mutator could slow down or delay garbage collection.

This check makes sense for fractional mark workers, since they'll just
return to the scheduler immediately if there's no work, but we want
the scheduler to start all of the dedicated mark workers promptly,
even if there's currently no queued work. Hence, this change moves the
pending work check after the check for starting a dedicated worker.

Change-Id: I52b851cc9e41f508a0955b3f905ca80f109ea101
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/9298
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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