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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Earl T. Cohen, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods for determining, by a storage controller, a read unit address and encoded length information of one of the plurality of read units of a non-volatile memory (NVM) based at least in part on a page address of a particular one of a plurality of pages in a storage space address. The encoded length information may be decoded. The storage controller may determine a span specifying an integer number of the read units and a length in units having a finer granularity than the read units based at least in part on the page address. The storage controller may read data associated with the particular page based at least in part on the read unit address and the span. The storage controller may update space usage information of the NVM based at least in part on the length.


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