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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2019
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01);
Abstract
A garbage collection technology for a storage medium that includes a plurality of blocks, where each storage unit has a collection parameter related to data in one of the blocks, and where each block includes a plurality of pages. A group of blocks is selected from the plurality of blocks based on the collection parameter. A difference between values of collection parameters of any two blocks in the group of blocks is not greater than a preset value. Data in a first valid page and a second valid page in the group of blocks is replicated to a same destination block, to facilitate garbage collection.