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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2024
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Shay Benisty, Beer Sheva, IL;
Ariel Navon, Revava, IL;
SanDisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Logical to physical (L2P) tables are implemented in solid state drives (SSDs) to hold L2P address translations. In a thin provisioning or thin storage system, the L2P table is sized to support the total amount of memory that is available to be allocated on a per client or per host basis. During thin provisioning, the total amount of memory is not typically utilized. As such, the L2P table, which is sized to accommodate full usage of the memory allocated, is not fully utilized resulting in unused portions of the L2P table. The unused portions of the L2P table can be reallocated to use as temporal buffers until needed for write commands. Due to the reallocation, less buffers are needed.