David Stephen Miller (born November 26, 1974) is an American

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working on the

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, where he is the primary maintainer of the networking subsystem and individual networking drivers, the SPARC implementation, and the IDE subsystem. With other people, he co-maintains the crypto API, KProbes, IPsec, and is also involved in other development work. He is also a founding member of the

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(GCC) steering committee.

Work

As of January 2022, Miller is #1 in "non-author signoff" patches, 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. He worked at the

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Center for Advanced Information Processing, at Cobalt Microserver, and then

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since 1999.

SPARC porting

Miller

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the Linux kernel to the

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SPARC in 1996 with

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. He has also ported Linux to the 64-bit

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machines, including

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in early 2006 and later the T2 and T2+. he continues to maintain the sparc port (both 32-bit and 64-bit). In April 2008, Miller contributed the SPARC port of

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, a from-scratch rewrite of the

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Linux networking

Miller is one of the maintainers of the Linux TCP/IP stack and has been key in improving its performance in high load environments. He also wrote and/or contributed to numerous

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drivers in the Linux kernel.

eBPF

Miller is currently working on Linux's dynamic tracing technology, called

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Speeches

David delivered the keynote at netdev 0.1 on February 16, 2015, in

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. He also delivered the keynote at

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in 2000, and another keynote at

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in January 2006. He gave a talk on "Multiqueue Networking Developments in the Linux Kernel" at the July 2009 meeting of the New York Linux Users Group.

References

External links

David S. Miller's Linux Networking HomepageDavid Miller's old blogDavid Miller Google+ page
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