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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
May. 11, 2016
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do OT, KR;
Inventors:
Frederick K. H. Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xiangyu Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Lingqi Zeng, San Jose, CA (US);
Yunhsiang Hsueh, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 2212/214 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
Memory systems may include a memory including a plurality of blocks, and a controller suitable for determining a pool of blocks from the plurality of blocks as garbage collection (GC) victim block candidates based on a number of valid pages left in each of the plurality of blocks, and selecting a block from the pool of blocks having a minimum number of valid pages as a victim block for garbage collection.