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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 19, 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);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of managing a garbage collection (GC) operation includes: comprising: selecting a source block and at least one candidate source block from the flash memory; calculating an overall valid page percentage according to a number of valid pages in the source block and the at least one candidate source block; determining a GC-to-host base ratio according to the overall valid page percentage; and performing the GC operation on the source block according to at least the GC-to-host base ratio.