PERFORMANCE ALLOCATION AMONG USERS FOR ACCESSING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20250156079A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-15

    申请号:US19025733

    申请日:2025-01-16

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A computer having a plurality of accounts and a storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. An account is configured with at least a predetermined speed in accessing the non-volatile storage media by allocating a number of input/output submission queues in the buffer area of the host. The number can be determined from a ratio between the predetermined speed configured for the account and a saturated speed of the storage device with sufficient submission queues. Data access requests from the account are evenly distributed to the submission queues allocated for the exclusive use by the account; and the controller, configured via the firmware, processes with equal priority the submission queues configured for the storage device. Thus, the account can have at least the predetermined speed in accessing the non-volatile storage media, regardless of how other accounts access the storage device.

    Namespace size adjustment in non-volatile memory devices

    公开(公告)号:US12299280B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-13

    申请号:US18598100

    申请日:2024-03-07

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A computer storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: store a namespace map mapping blocks of logical block addresses in a namespace to blocks from a logical address capacity of the non-volatile storage media; adjust the namespace map to change the size of the namespace; and translate logical addresses in the namespace to physical addresses for the non-volatile storage media using the namespace map.

    ADDRESS MAP CACHING FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240264938A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18640789

    申请日:2024-04-19

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    CPC classification number: G06F12/0802 G06F2212/2022 G06F2212/656

    Abstract: A system having non-volatile media, a volatile memory, and a controller configured to process requests from a host system to store data in the non-volatile media or retrieve data from the non-volatile media. The non-volatile media has a quantity of memory units and stores an address map that defines logical addresses used in the requests in terms of physical addresses of the memory units in the non-volatile media. The host system has a memory connected to the system via a communication channel. The system has a cache manager that stores a first portion of the address map in the volatile memory of the system and a second portion of the address map in the memory of the host system. In response to an operation that uses a logical address defined in the second portion, the cache manager retrieves the second portion of the address map from the memory.

    Data storage device idle time processing

    公开(公告)号:US11740812B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-29

    申请号:US16896004

    申请日:2020-06-08

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A computer system having a host coupled to a storage device via a peripheral component interconnect express bus. The host communicates with the storage device in accordance with a non-volatile memory host controller interface specification. The host provides a customized module containing instructions for performing the operations of a customized command. The host sends an idle time command to the storage device for execution at an idle time. In response to a determination that the storage device is in an idle state, the storage device executes the idle time command, during which the module may be used by the controller of the storage device.

    Stack management in memory systems

    公开(公告)号:US11720282B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US17158992

    申请日:2021-01-26

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0659 G06F3/0604 G06F3/0644 G06F3/0688

    Abstract: A memory system having a stack memory, a set of media. and a controller. The controller divides the stack memory into a plurality of stacks, measures usages of the stacks in a period of time of operating on the set of media, and adjusts partitioning of the stack memory into the plurality of stacks according to the measured usages.

    DEFECTIVE MEMORY UNIT SCREENING IN A MEMORY SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220406395A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17895761

    申请日:2022-08-25

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A memory system having non-volatile media and a controller configured to process requests from a host system to store data in the non-volatile media or retrieve data from the non-volatile media. The non-volatile media has a set of memory units. The memory system stores an indicator indicating whether the memory system is operating in a user mode or a manufacturing mode. A defect manager of the memory system identifies a threshold based on the indicator, monitors an error rate in reading data from the non-volatile media and, in response to the error rate reaching the threshold, screens the non-volatile media for defective memory units.

    Namespace size adjustment in non-volatile memory devices

    公开(公告)号:US11435900B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US16859800

    申请日:2020-04-27

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A computer storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: store a namespace map mapping blocks of logical block addresses in a namespace to blocks from a logical address capacity of the non-volatile storage media; adjust the namespace map to change the size of the namespace; and translate logical addresses in the namespace to physical addresses for the non-volatile storage media using the namespace map.

    Live firmware activation in a memory system

    公开(公告)号:US11347429B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16827576

    申请日:2020-03-23

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A memory system having memory components and a processing device to: communicate with a host system to obtain, from the host system, at least one host specified parameter during booting up of the host system; execute first firmware to process requests from the host system using the at least one host specified parameter, the requests including storing data into the memory components and retrieving data from the memory components; install second firmware while running the first firmware; store the at least one host specified parameter; and reboot into executing the second firmware using the at least one host specified parameter, without rebooting of the host system.

    Management of storage resources allocated from non-volatile memory devices to users

    公开(公告)号:US11288180B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US15876066

    申请日:2018-01-19

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A computer having a plurality of accounts and a storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. Each account has a namespace identifier that identifies the allocation of a portion of the non-volatile storage media to the account. The storage device stores a namespace map that defines the mapping between the logical addresses in a namespace identified by the namespace identifier and the logical addresses, in a capacity of the storage device, that correspond to the portion of the non-volatile storage media allocated to and accessible to the account. The account accesses the portion of the non-volatile storage media via the logical addresses in the namespace. The firmware of the storage device configures the controller to convert, using the namespace map, the logical addresses in the namespace to the physical addresses of the portion of the non-volatile storage media.

    Meta data protection against unexpected power loss in a memory system

    公开(公告)号:US11204841B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-21

    申请号:US15947428

    申请日:2018-04-06

    Inventor: Alex Frolikov

    Abstract: A memory system having a set of non-volatile media, a volatile memory, a buffer memory, and a controller configured to process requests from a host system to store data in the non-volatile media or retrieve data from the non-volatile media. The buffer memory is capable of holding data for at least a predetermined period of time after the volatile memory loses data during an event of power outage in the memory system. A power manager monitors a power supply of the memory system to detect an onset of power outage and, in response to the onset of power outage, causes the controller to copy meta data in the volatile memory to the buffer memory.

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