Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for page validity management and related storage system
-
Application No.: US17239669Application Date: 2021-04-25
-
Publication No.: US11580018B2Publication Date: 2023-02-14
- Inventor: Tzu-Yi Yang
- 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
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G06F12/0882 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F12/0891
Abstract:
A method of performing a garbage collection operation on a source block includes: performing a plurality of partial page clean operations during a series of host write operations. Each partial clean operation includes: performing a validity check process within a partitioned searching range of the source block to obtain valid page information; and performing a page clean process according to the valid page information and a target clean page number to read valid pages indicated by the valid page information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220342811A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAGE VALIDITY MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STORAGE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2022-10-27
Information query
