Micron Technology Incorporated

Nicola Colella

Antonino Pollio

Luca Porzio

Roberto Izzi

Gianfranco Ferrante

Danilo Caraccio

Alessandro Orlando

Hua Fang Tan

Dionisio Minopoli

Marco Onorato

Rakeshkumar Dayabhai Vaghasiya

Dhruv Chauhan

Mani Raghavendra Aravapalli

Anil Sindhi

Antonio Mauro

Luigi Costanzo

Methods, systems, and devices are described to indicate, in an entry of logical to physical (L2P) mapping information stored at a host system, whether data associated with the entry is sequential to other data associated with a next entry or a previous entry. Each entry may have a third field, which may indicate whether the data is sequential. Based on the third field, the host system may determine whether data to be read from a memory system is sequential. The host system may transmit one read command to the memory system if the data is sequential, where the read command may include at least a portion of an L2P entry associated with the data. Similarly, based on the third field, the memory system may determine whether the data to be read is sequential, and may read additional, sequential data if the memory system determines that the data is sequential.

Reading sequential data using mapping information stored at a host device

A method includes: creating a logical-to-physical address translation (L2P) bitmap for each respective virtual block programmed across a plane of multiple dice of a memory device, each L2P bitmap identifying logical addresses, within each respective L2P table of a plurality of L2P tables, that belong to a respective virtual block; creating a virtual block (VB) bitmap for each respective L2P table, the VB bitmap identifying virtual blocks to which the respective L2P table points; creating an updated VB bitmap for a first L2P table, of the plurality of L2P tables, based on changes to the first L2P table; determining that an entry in the VB bitmap is different than the entry in the updated VB bitmap, the entry corresponding to a particular virtual block; and identifying and updating, by the processing device, an L2P bitmap associated with the particular virtual block for an L2P mapping corresponding to the entry.

Dynamic updates to logical-to-physical address translation table bitmaps

A processing device of a memory sub-system can monitor a plurality of received commands to identify a forced unit access command. The processing device can identify a metadata area of the memory device based on the forced unit access command. The processing device can also perform an action responsive to identifying a subsequent forced unit access command to the metadata area.

Storage traffic pattern detection in memory devices

Methods, systems, and devices for data separation for garbage collection are described. A control component coupled to the memory array may identify a source block for a garbage collection procedure. In some cases, a first set of pages of the source block may be identified as a first type associated with a first access frequency and a second set of pages of the source block ay be identified as a second type associated with a second access frequency. Once the pages are identified as either the first type or the second type, the first set of pages may be transferred to a first destination block, and the second set of pages may be transferred to a second destination block as part of the garbage collection procedure.

Data separation for garbage collection

Methods, systems, and devices for data relocation scheme selection for a memory system are described. A system may select, based on a fragmentation characteristic of data associated with a block of addresses, whether to perform a relocation associated with relocating invalid data, or to perform a relocation associated with refraining from relocating invalid data. A relocation associated with relocating invalid data may be selected for relatively more-fragmented data, which may avoid a relatively higher latency or processing load associated with evaluating validity or updating logical-to-physical mapping at a more-granular level. A relocation associated with refraining from relocating invalid data may be selected for relatively less-fragmented data, which may support increasing available space by relocating data to a physical block with available portions that may be written to, taking advantage of a relatively lower latency or processing load associated with evaluating validity or updating logical-to-physical mapping at a less-granular level.

Data relocation scheme selection for a memory system

Methods, systems, and devices for a split cache for address mapping data are described. A memory system may include a cache (e.g., including a first and second portion) for storing data that indicates a mapping between logical addresses associated with a host system and physical addresses of the memory system. The memory system may store data (e.g., the address mapping data) within the first portion of the cache. Additionally, the memory system may store an indication of whether the data is used for any access operations during a duration that the data is stored in the first portion of the cache. The memory system may transfer subsets of the data to the second portion of the cache if they are used for access operations during the duration.

Split cache for address mapping data

A method includes: creating L2P tables while programming virtual blocks (VBs) across memory planes; creating an L2P bitmap for each VB, the L2P bitmap identifying logical addresses, within each L2P table, that belong to each VB; creating a VB bitmap for each L2P table, the VB bitmap identifying virtual blocks to which the respective L2P table points; creating an updated VB bitmap for a first L2P table based on changes to the first L2P table; determining that an entry in the VB bitmap is different than the entry in the updated VB bitmap, the entry corresponding to a particular VB; identifying an L2P bitmap corresponding to the particular VB; changing a bit within the identified L2P bitmap for an L2P mapping corresponding to the entry; and employing the identified L2P bitmap to determine L2P table(s) of the respective L2P tables that contain valid logical addresses for the particular VB.

Methods, systems, and devices for selective garbage collection are described. A host system may determine that a battery level is below a threshold or determine whether a power parameter of a memory system that includes a memory device satisfies a criterion. The host system may set a value of a flag. The memory system may perform an access operation and identify the value of the flag. The memory system may determine whether performing a garbage collection procedure is permitted based on identifying the value of the flag.

Selective garbage collection

Methods, systems, and devices for read operations for regions of a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory device may include a first cache for storing mappings between logical addresses and physical addresses of the memory device, and a second cache for storing indices associated with entries removed from the first cache. The memory device may include a controller configured to load mappings to the first cache upon receiving read commands. When the first cache is full, and when the memory device receives a read command, the controller may remove an entry from the first cache and may store an index associated with the removed entry to the second cache. The controller may then transmit a mapping associated with the index to a host device for use in a HPB operation.

Enhancement for activation and deactivation of memory address regions

Memory device performance based on storage traffic pattern detection

Methods, systems, and devices for using page line filler data are described. In some examples, a memory system may store data within a write buffer of the memory system. The memory system may initiate an operation to transfer the write buffer data to a memory device, for example, due to a command to perform a memory management operation (e.g., cache synchronization, context switching, or the like) from a host system. In some examples, a quantity of write buffer data may fail to satisfy a data size threshold. Thus, the memory system may aggregate the data in the write buffer with valid data from a block of the memory device associated with garbage collection. The memory system may aggregate the write buffer data with the garbage collection data until the aggregated data satisfies the data size threshold. The memory system may then write the aggregated data to the memory device.

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