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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2021
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventor:
Tzu-Yi Yang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 13/1626 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of performing a garbage collection operation on a source block includes: performing a plurality of partial page clean operations during a series of host write operations. Each partial clean operation includes: performing a validity check process within a partitioned searching range of the source block to obtain valid page information; and performing a page clean process according to the valid page information and a target clean page number to read valid pages indicated by the valid page information.