David S. Miller

This article is about a Linux kernel hacker. For the Mozilla/Bugzilla programmer, see Dave Miller (software developer).

David Stephen Miller
Born	November 26, 1974 (1974-11-26) (age 36) New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Other names	DaveM
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 networking and the SPARC implementation,^[1][2] and is also involved in other development work. He is also a member of the GNU Compiler Collection steering committee.^[3]

Work

As of 2010, Miller tops the top 10 kernel developer as counted by number of changes,^[4] with 2987 commits since 2005.^[5]

He worked at the Rutgers University Center for Advanced Information Processing,^[6] at Cobalt Microserver,^[7] and then Red Hat since 1999.^[8][9]

SPARC porting

Miller ported the Linux kernel to the Sun Microsystems SPARC in 1996^[6] with Miguel de Icaza. He has also ported Linux to the 64-bit UltraSPARC machines, including UltraSPARC T1 in early 2006^[10] and later the T2 and T2+. As of 2010^[update] he continues to maintain the sparc port (both 32-bit and 64-bit).^[2]

In April 2008, Miller contributed the SPARC port of the Gold, a from-scratch rewrite of the GNU linker.^[11][12]

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.^[13] He also wrote and/or contributed to numerous network card drivers in the Linux kernel.^[14][15]

Speeches

He gave the keynote at Ottawa Linux Symposium in 2000,^[16] and another keynote at Linux.conf.au in Dunedin in January, 2006.^[17]

He gave a talk on "Multiqueue Networking Developments in the Linux Kernel" at the July 2009 meeting of the New York Linux Users Group.^[18]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "List of maintainers of the Linux kernel, section Networking, version 2.6.32". Linux kernel. lxr.linux.no -- the Linux Cross Reference. 2010-04-02. http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.32/MAINTAINERS#L3703. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "List of maintainers of the Linux kernel, section SPARC, version 2.6.32". Linux kernel. lxr.linux.no -- the Linux Cross Reference. 2010-04-02. http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32/MAINTAINERS#L4953. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
3. ^ "GCC steering committee". The GCC team / Free Software Foundation. 2009-04-27. http://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html. Retrieved 2010-04-18. 
4. ^ Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jonathan Corbet, Amanda McPherson (December 2010). "Linux Kernel Development". The Linux Foundation. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/docs/lf_linux_kernel_development_2010.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-03. 
5. ^ "Ohloh Page for user 'davem' kernel 2.6 contributions". Ohloh, a free public directory of open source software and people. Ohloh / Geeknet, Inc.. http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/davem. Retrieved 2010-04-18. 
6. ^ ^{a b} David S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP, and Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1997). "The SPARC Port of Linux". Usenix Proceedings. USENIX Association. http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/summaries/miller_invite.html. Retrieved 2010-04-18. 
7. ^ "1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase Speakers". The Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1998-10-24. http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1998/speaker/speakers.shtml. 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." 
8. ^ "Excerpt from a Red Hat (RHAT) SEC S-1 filing". June 4, 1999. http://lists.essential.org/random-bits/msg00111.html. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
9. ^ "Interview with David Miller of Red Hat". 8th Annual Linux Kernel Summit (The Linux Foundation). September 14–18, 2008. http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1004. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
10. ^ "First Niagara/Linux SMP boot...". David Miller's Blog. February 17, 2006. http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/2006/02/17. Retrieved 2010-04-18. 
11. ^ David S. Miller (2008-04-11). "RFC PATCH: Sparc gold support". binutils at sourceware.org mailing list. binutils project. http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-04/msg00173.html. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
12. ^ "revision history of the sparc source file". The Gold CVS repository. 2008-04-15 to 2010-03-10. http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gold/sparc.cc?cvsroot=src. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
13. ^ David S. Miller (1997-03-03). "Socket hashing patches, 5th and final installment". Linux kernel mailing list mailing list. lkml.org. http://lkml.org/lkml/1997/3/3/3. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
14. ^ "Source file for the sunhme kernel module". Linux Kernel. http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.33/drivers/net/sunhme.c. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
15. ^ "Source file for the tg3 kernel module". Linux Kernel. http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32/drivers/net/tg3.c. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
16. ^ "Linux Weekly News 2000 OLS report". Linux Weekly News. 2002. http://lwn.net/2000/features/OLS/. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
17. ^ "Linux.conf.au 2006 programme". Linux.conf.au. 2006. http://linux.org.au/conf/2006/program.html. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
18. ^ "NYLUG - July 2009 Meeting". New York Linux Users Group. 2009-06-15. http://www.nylug.org/meetings/index.shtml?20090700. Retrieved 2009-08-01. 

External links

• David S. Miller's Linux Networking Homepage
• David Miller's blog

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Name	Miller, David S.
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Date of birth	1974-11-26
Place of birth	New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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