Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for performing mapping information management regarding redundant array of independent disks
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Application No.: US16297737Application Date: 2019-03-11
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Publication No.: US11221773B2Publication Date: 2022-01-11
- Inventor: An-Nan Chang
- Applicant: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu County
- Assignee: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu County
- Agent Winston Hsu
- Priority: TW10713966.1 20181108
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F16/17 ; G06F1/30

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for performing mapping information management regarding a RAID are provided. The method includes: writing data into a data region of the RAID in a redirect-on-write (ROW) manner, and recording mapping information between logical addresses of the data and protected-access-unit addresses (p-addresses) of protected access units in the data region into a logical-address-to-p-address (L2p) table within a table region of the RAID; when partial data of the data is updated, maintaining an updating list including a set of L2p table entries for the partial data in a RAM, and maintaining a recovery log corresponding to the updating list in a log region of the RAID, for power failure recovery; and according to the updating list, detecting whether a number of same-location L2p table entries in the set of L2p table entries reaches a predetermined threshold, to selectively update the L2p table with the same-location L2p table entries.
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