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Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2022
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;

Inventor:

Gi Pyo Um, Icheon, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory system or memory controller may calculate a first data size, which is the sum of sizes of data requested to be written by write requests from outside the memory system after a first reference time point, calculate a second data size, which is the sum of sizes of data updated by the write requests among data already stored in the memory device from a second reference time point, and control execution of garbage collection on data stored in the memory device based on the first data size and the second data size.


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