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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2016
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Mohammed Ghiath Khatib, Santa Clara, CA (US);
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Systems and methods for generating a self-ordering buffer are described. An example method includes generating a plurality of nodes forming a linked list, each node in the linked list having a directional pointer referencing a subsequent element in the linked list and a data pointer referencing a corresponding memory block from a plurality of memory blocks; generating a head pointer, the head pointer referencing a beginning node in the linked list; generating a tail pointer, the tail pointer referencing an end node in the linked list; generating a next pointer, the next pointer referencing a next node of the linked list; generating a free pointer, the free pointer referencing a free node of the linked list; and wherein the plurality of nodes forming the linked list, the corresponding memory blocks, the head pointer, the tail pointer, the next pointer, and the free pointer form a buffer.