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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2022
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Kaihong Wang, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Cheng Yi, Vancouver, CA;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for performing data access performance shaping of a memory device and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: receiving a plurality of host commands from a host device, for performing data access on the NV memory according to the plurality of host commands; and monitoring the plurality of host commands to control respective performance metrics of a plurality of access control groups of the memory device with a dual-state leaky bucket (LB) model, wherein regarding any access control group, for example: determining at least one first performance metric according to at least one first command to be a first LB fill level of a dual-state LB; in response to the first LB fill level being below a state threshold, determining the dual-state LB to be in a first predetermined state, and configuring the dual-state LB to have a first predetermined drain rate, for dynamically adjusting performance quota.