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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited, Kowloon, HK;

Inventors:

Guo-Fu Tseng, New Taipei, TW;

Cheng-Yue Chang, New Taipei, TW;

Kuan-Kai Chiu, Taipei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0855 (2016.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 12/0813 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0855 (2013.01); G06F 3/068 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0813 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for performing pipeline-based accessing management in a storage server and associated apparatus are provided. The method includes: in response to a request of writing user data into the storage server, utilizing a host device within the storage server to write the user data into a storage device layer of the storage server and start processing an object write command corresponding to the request of writing the user data with a pipeline architecture of the storage server; utilizing the host device to input metadata corresponding to the user data into at least one pipeline within the pipeline architecture; and utilizing the host device to cache the metadata with a first cache module of the pipeline, for controlling the storage server completing the request without generating write amplification of the metadata, wherein the first cache module is a hardware pipeline module outside the storage device layer.


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