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:>     For situations that aren't in the critical path and don't happen often,
:>     it may be beneficial to do a voluntary context switch inside the loop.
:
:Is it possible/legal to do this inside a strategy() routine?

    Yes, though it isn't playing nice if the caller was trying to issue
    an asynchronous I/O.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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