Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Micron Technology Incorporated

Yuriy Pavlenko

Haining Liu

Scott Jinn

Yun-Tzuo Lai

Sanghoon Chu

Kum-Jung Song

YungLi Ji

George G Artnak, Jr

Karl David Schuh

James P Crowley

Siddharth Choudhuri

Hung-min Chang

Hung-Cheng Yeh

The subject technology provides for managing a data storage system. A data operation error for a data operation initiated in a first non-volatile memory die of a plurality of non-volatile memory die in the data storage system is detected. An error count for an error type of the data operation error for the first non-volatile memory die is incremented. The incremented error count satisfies a first threshold value for the error type of the data operation error is determined. The first non-volatile memory die is marked for exclusion from subsequent data operations.

Method and system for managing memory device

The subject technology provides for managing a data storage system. Commands are identified into as a first command type or a second command type. The commands identified as the first command type are assigned to a first queue, and the commands identified as the second command type are assigned to a second queue. After the commands from the first queue and the commands from the second queue are processed based on a scheduling ratio over a predetermined period of time, a write amplification factor, number of host read commands, and number of host write commands during the predetermined period of time are determined. The scheduling ratio is updated based on the write amplification, the number of host read commands, the number of host write commands, and a predetermined scheduling ratio factor. Subsequent commands are processed from the first queue and the second queue based on the updated scheduling ratio.

Dynamic command scheduling for storage system

Command scheduling for die sets of non-volatile memory may be performed based on command states of the die sets. Upon receiving an erase command to erase data stored in a first block set of non-volatile memory, a command state of the first die set of the non-volatile memory is determined, where the first die set contains the first block set. If the first die set is determined to be in a pending command state, the erase command is queued in a wait queue. If the first die set is determined to be in an idle command state, the erase command is scheduled to erase the data stored in the first block set.

Geometry-aware command scheduling

A storage device may include a controller and a memory array including a plurality of dies arranged into a plurality of channels. In some examples, the controller may be configured to define, from the memory array, a plurality of die-sets based on respective chip enable lines associated with the plurality of dies, wherein each die-set of the plurality of die-sets includes at least one die from each of the plurality of channels; define, from a selected die-set of the plurality of die-sets, a plurality of blocksets, wherein each blockset includes a block from each die of the selected die-set; receive a unit of data to be stored; and issue commands that cause the unit of data to be stored in blocks of a selected blockset of the plurality of blocksets.

Multi-tier scheme for logical storage management

A device that provides power fail handling using command suspension includes non-volatile memory circuits and a controller that is configured to determine that a power fail event has occurred. The controller is configured to determine, in response to the determination that the power fail event has occurred, which of the non-volatile memory circuits are executing a first type of memory commands. The controller is also configured to issue a stop command to the determined non-volatile memory circuits to stop execution of the first type of memory commands.

Power fail handling using stop commands

Context-aware dynamic command scheduling for a data storage system

The subject technology provides implementations, which may be included as part of firmware of the flash memory device, that will not solely rely on a flash controller interpreted status but includes additional checks to the returned flash status byte. Each flash read, write, and erase command requires a status read command to determine the state of operation. Depending on the particular command issued, each bit of the returned status has a different meaning. The flash memory device firmware can check whether an illogical or inconsistent status is present. For example, if an overall pass/fail bit indicates a 'pass' but a plane pass/fail bit indicates a 'fail' then there could be an erroneous detection. Also, for every operation, the firmware can read status twice when the flash memory is ready. If the second status byte fails to match the first status byte then a die may be flagged as failing.

Run-time memory device failure detection enhancement

A controller selects a redundancy context for eviction in response to a request for a redundancy context. The redundancy context includes buffer data and an identifier. The redundancy context is evicted by instructing a redundancy component to send the buffer data and identifier to a memory component to store in a buffer as an evicted context. The controller instructs the memory component to provide the evicted context for storage in a controller buffer. A new redundancy context is allocated to the requester following the eviction.

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Lake Forest, CA, United States of America

Yuriy Pavlenko