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Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Lee, San Carlos, CA (US);

Svitlana Tumanova, Mountain View, CA (US);

Boris Feigin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Taher Vohra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for elective garbage collection in storage memory, performed by a storage system is provided. The method includes monitoring storage space available in each of a plurality of portions of storage memory of a storage system and detecting an imbalance in the storage space available across the plurality of portions of storage memory. The method includes performing garbage collection to rebalance the space available across the plurality of portions of storage memory, responsive to the detecting. A storage system is also provided.


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