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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2020
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Amit Bhardwaj, Hyderabad, IN;
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A number of data access operations is tracked where the data access operations are associated with each of a plurality of portions of a translation map. The translation map maps a plurality of logical block addresses to a plurality of physical block addresses of the memory device. A criterion to perform a garbage collection operation is determined to be satisfied. The garbage collection operation is to be performed on a block of the memory component. The block for performing the garbage collection operation is identified based on the number of data access operations associated with each of the plurality of portions of the translation map. The garbage collection operation is performed on the identified block.