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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
May. 29, 2018
Applicant:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yanwei Jiang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aswin Karumbunathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Naveen Neelakantam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kiron Vijayasankar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bo Feng, Daly City, CA (US);
Joern Engel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); H03M 7/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01); H03M 7/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage system performs garbage collection with data compression. A storage controller in the storage system determines a garbage collection directive by evaluating the amount of reclaimable space relative to a target amount of reclaimable space. Garbage collection is performed using data compression tunable to compression aggressiveness according to the garbage collection directive.