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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2021
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Heekwon Park, San Jose, CA (US);
Tong Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yang Seok Ki, Palo alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include receiving, from a process, a memory allocation request for a memory system comprising a first channel having a first channel utilization and a second channel having a second channel utilization, selecting, based on the first channel utilization and the second channel utilization, the first channel, and allocating, to the process, a page of memory from the first channel. The selecting may include selecting the first channel based on a balanced random policy. The selecting may include generating a ticket based on a random number and a number of free pages, comparing the ticket to a number of free pages of the first channel, and selecting the first channel based on the comparing. The selecting may include selecting the first channel based on a least used channel policy.