Dedicated-pthread pool isolated from the vtask pool; non-blocking slowlane_submit
(0 enqueued / -EEXIST deduped / -EAGAIN cap-full-deferred), admission cap on
running tasks, per-key in-flight dedup, run-exactly-once, drain+join fini. Wired
into controller lifecycle (dormant; consumers land in 2.x/3.x). 7 unit tests,
mutation-verified cap+dedup; full suite 194/0 green, 15x ASAN.