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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2019
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Kuan-Te Li, Taipei, TW;
Sheng-Hsun Lin, Magong, TW;
Kuei-Sung Hsu, New Taipei, TW;
Jian-Wei Sun, Taipei, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;
Abstract
The invention introduces a method for controlling data access to a flash memory, performed by a processing unit, including steps of: obtaining a logical address associated with a data read operation; determining whether a group table corresponding to the logical address is queued in a locked queue, or a hot zone of a swap queue; and prohibiting content of the locked queue and the swap queue from being modified when the group table corresponding to the logical address is queued in the locked queue, or the hot zone of the swap queue.
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