David S. Miller

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David Stephen Miller
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Born (1974-11-26) November 26, 1974 (age 49)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Other namesDaveM
Occupation Programmer
Employer Red Hat
Known for Linux Kernel, GCC

David Stephen Miller (born November 26, 1974) is an American software developer working on the Linux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of the networking subsystem [1] [2] and individual networking drivers, [3] the SPARC implementation, [4] [5] and the IDE subsystem. [6] With other people, he co-maintains the crypto API, [7] KProbes, [8] IPsec, [9] and is also involved in other development work.

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He is also a founding member of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) steering committee. [10]

Work

As of January 2022, Miller is #1 in "non-author signoff" patches, [11] which are Linux kernel modifications reviewed by the subsystem maintainer who ultimately applies them. He's been in the top gatekeepers for years since kernel 2.6.22 in 2007. [12]

He worked at the Rutgers University Center for Advanced Information Processing, [13] at Cobalt Microserver, [14] and then Red Hat since 1999. [15] [16]

SPARC porting

Miller ported the Linux kernel to the Sun Microsystems SPARC in 1996 [13] with Miguel de Icaza. He has also ported Linux to the 64-bit UltraSPARC machines, including UltraSPARC T1 in early 2006 [17] and later the T2 and T2+. As of 2010 he continues to maintain the sparc port (both 32-bit and 64-bit). [4]

In April 2008, Miller contributed the SPARC port of gold, a from-scratch rewrite of the GNU linker. [18] [19]

Linux networking

Miller is one of the maintainers of the Linux TCP/IP stack [1] and has been key in improving its performance in high load environments. [20] He also wrote and/or contributed to numerous network card drivers in the Linux kernel. [21] [22]

eBPF

Miller is currently working on Linux's dynamic tracing technology, called eBPF. [23]

Speeches

David delivered the keynote at netdev 0.1 on February 16, 2015, in Ottawa. [24] He also delivered the keynote at Ottawa Linux Symposium in 2000, [25] and another keynote at Linux.conf.au in Dunedin in January 2006. [26]

He gave a talk on "Multiqueue Networking Developments in the Linux Kernel" at the July 2009 meeting of the New York Linux Users Group. [27]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section NETWORKING [GENERAL]".
  2. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section NETWORKING [IPv4/IPv6]".
  3. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section NETWORKING DRIVERS".
  4. 1 2 "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section SPARC + UltraSPARC (sparc/sparc64)".
  5. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section SPARC SERIAL DRIVERS".
  6. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section IDE SUBSYSTEM)".
  7. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section CRYPTO API)".
  8. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section KPROBES)".
  9. ↑ "Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file as of 4.17, section NETWORKING [IPSEC])".
  10. ↑ "GCC steering committee". The GCC team / Free Software Foundation. 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
  11. ↑ Jonathan Corbet. LWN.net (ed.). "Some 5.16 kernel development statistics".
  12. ↑ Jonathan Corbet. LWN.net (ed.). "Some 5.6 kernel development statistics".
  13. 1 2 David S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP & Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1997). "The SPARC Port of Linux". Usenix Proceedings. USENIX Association. Retrieved 2010-04-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase Speakers". The Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1998-10-24. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2010-04-19. David S. Miller is an engineer at Cobalt Networks, he's been a member of the Linux kernel developer team for nearly 5 years now, and has ported it to various Sparc and MIPS platforms. He is also the current primary maintainer of the IP networking layer in the kernel and an active contributor to the EGCS compiler project.
  15. ↑ "Excerpt from a Red Hat (RHAT) SEC S-1 filing". June 4, 1999. Archived from the original on July 8, 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  16. ↑ Interview with David Miller of Red Hat. 8th Annual Linux Kernel Summit. The Linux Foundation. September 14–18, 2008. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  17. ↑ "First Niagara/Linux SMP boot..." David Miller's Blog. February 17, 2006. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
  18. ↑ David S. Miller (2008-04-11). "RFC PATCH: Sparc gold support". binutils at sourceware.org (Mailing list). binutils project. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  19. ↑ "revision history of the sparc source file". The Gold CVS repository. April 2008 – March 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  20. ↑ David S. Miller (1997-03-03). "Socket hashing patches, 5th and final installment". Linux kernel mailing list (Mailing list). lkml.org. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  21. ↑ "Source file for the sunhme kernel module". Linux Kernel . Archived from the original on 2005-09-23. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  22. ↑ "Source file for the tg3 kernel module". Linux Kernel . Archived from the original on 2005-09-23. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  23. ↑ "#ebpf You Cannot Stop This" (PDF).
  24. ↑ "State of the union on Linux kernel networking". netdev01.org. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  25. ↑ "Linux Weekly News 2000 OLS report". Linux Weekly News . 2002. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  26. ↑ "Linux.conf.au 2006 programme". Linux.conf.au. 2006. Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  27. ↑ "NYLUG - July 2009 Meeting". New York Linux Users Group. 2009-06-15. Archived from the original on 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
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