David S. Miller
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| Born | November 26, 1974 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
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| Other names | DaveM |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | Red Hat |
| Known for | Linux Kernel, GCC |
David S. Miller (born November 26, 1974) is an American developer working on the Linux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of networking and the SPARC implementation, and is also involved in other development work. He is also an active member of the GNU Compiler Collection steering committee.
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[edit] Personal
Miller has finished high school, but not university. He worked at the Rutgers University Center for Advanced Information Processing, at Cobalt Microserver, and then Red Hat since 1999[citation needed]. In 1998 he married Nina Mazur, but the couple divorced in 2005. Currently he's not married.
[edit] Work
[edit] SPARC porting
Miller ported the Linux kernel to the Sun Microsystems SPARC in 1996[1] with Miguel de Icaza. He was famously asked "Have you ever kissed a girl?"[2] by Bryan Cantrill, a Solaris performance engineer, after Miller explained why Linux is substantially faster than Solaris.
He has also ported Linux to the UltraSPARC T1 in early 2006.[3] Subsequently he conquered the UltraSPARC-T2 and UltraSPARC-T2+.
In April, 2008, Miller contributed the SPARC port of the Gold, a from-scratch rewrite of the GNU linker.[4]
[edit] Linux networking
Miller is one of the maintainers of the Linux TCP/IP stack[5] and has been key in improving its performance in high load environments. David was also a proponent of Van Jacobson's netchannels[6] idea. He also wrote and/or contributed to numerous network card drivers in the Linux kernel.
[edit] Speeches
He gave the keynote at Ottawa Linux Symposium in 2000[7].
He gave a keynote at Linux.conf.au in Dunedin in January, 2006[8].
[edit] References
- ^ Usenix Proceedings 1997
- ^ Kissed A Girl?
- ^ Blog Entry, February 17, 2006
- ^ binutils mail message, April, 2008
- ^ List of maintainers of the Linux kernel, section Networking, version 2.6.26
- ^ Van Jacobson's network channels, January 31, 2006, LWN.net
- ^ Linux Weekly News 2000 OLS report
- ^ "Linux.conf.au 2006 programme". http://linux.org.au/conf/2006/program.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-30.
