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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2020
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Young Ick Cho, Seoul, KR;
Sung Kwan Hong, Seoul, KR;
Byeong Gyu Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Sung Hun Jeon, Yongin-si, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Abstract
A data storage device includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller in communication with the memory array and configured to: store, in a map update buffer, one or more map segments including one or more logical address to be unmapped; determine, among logical address to physical address (L2P) entries of the one or more map segments stored in the map update buffer, L2P entries having the same memory block number; and selectively perform a first unmap operation or a second unmap operation according to whether all the L2P entries stored in the map update buffer have the same memory block number.