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The article discusses how states with robust privacy laws are likely to oppose the SECURE Data Act federal bill due to its broad preemption of state privacy frameworks.
A 2019 blog post argues that preemption (interrupts) can be used as a pre-paid barrier for memory ordering in lock-free programming, similar to how garbage collection is a sunk cost, and demonstrates implementations for event counts and asymmetric flag flips on Linux/x86.
Linux 7.0 removed the PREEMPT_NONE kernel preemption mode, causing a PostgreSQL benchmark regression in specific configurations, but most users will not notice the change.
This paper introduces a distribution-aware, prediction-free scheduling framework for LLM inference that replaces explicit length prediction with soft priority boosting using statistical signals. The method co-optimizes scheduling and cache-aware preemption to reduce tail latency, achieving up to 35-50% reduction in P99 TTLT compared to SRPT with perfect length knowledge.
Big Tech is making a final push for federal AI preemption legislation in Congress, but the effort has become entangled with child safety bills like KOSA, creating confusion among lawmakers and the White House over which version will pass.
This paper investigates whether Large Language Models exhibit the same usage-based linguistic productivity constraints (entrenchment and preemption) as humans, finding that models can reproduce coercion but fail to apply statistical preemption to avoid overgeneralization.
This paper presents an empirical study on scheduling multiple LLMs on shared heterogeneous hardware, focusing on performance implications of CPU-GPU offloading and preemption. It finds that offloading causes non-linear decode degradation, especially for smaller models, and preemption overhead is dominated by model state reload, providing design guidance for future multi-model schedulers.