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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 14, 2021
Storage system and method for dynamic allocation of control blocks for improving host write and read
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sridhar Prudviraj Gunda, Karnataka, IN;
Yarriswamy Chandranna, Karnataka, IN;
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage system has a pool of reserved memory blocks that can be used either as control blocks or as overprovision blocks. A controller in the storage system can dynamically allocate one or more blocks reserved for control blocks as extra overprovision blocks. If the storage system is running low on control blocks, the controller can allocate the extra blocks from overprovision pool back as control blocks.