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Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Beijing Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Jinyi Wang, Beijing, CN;

Xiangfeng Lu, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present application relates to a garbage collection method and a storage device for reducing write amplification. A method for selecting a data block to be collected in garbage collection, including: obtaining, according to a first selection policy, a first data block to be collected; determining, according to a first rejection policy, whether to refuse to collect the first data block to be collected; and if according to the first rejection policy, rejection to collect of the first data block to be collected is determined, not performing garbage collection on the first data block to be collected.


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