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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2020
Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Yu Zeng, Chengdu, CN;
Shenghao Gao, Chengdu, CN;
Marvell Asia PTE, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
The present disclosure describes aspects of cache management of logical-physical translation metadata. In some aspects, a cache () for logical-physical translation entries of a storage media system () is divided into a plurality of segments (). An indexer () is configured to efficiently balance a distribution of the logical-physical translation entries () between the segments (). A search engine () associated with the cache is configured to search respective cache segments () and a cache manager () may leverage masked search functionality of the search engine () to reduce the overhead of cache flush operations.