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Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2012
Applicants:

Cyril Guyot, San Jose, CA (US);

Timothy K. Tsai, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Cyril Guyot, San Jose, CA (US);

Timothy K. Tsai, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A data storage device accepts read and write commands with absolute command completion times based on queue-depth-of-one (qd=1) execution and stores them in an unsequenced commands memory. These commands are requests to access the data storage device and contain both locations on the storage medium where the data is located and whether the requested operation is read or write. For each pair of first and second commands in the memory, the time between execution of the first command and the second command is calculated and stored. A command selector then reads data from the memory based on a resequencing NCQ algorithm which inserts one or more commands from the command memory into the original qd=1 sequence whenever this insertion will not affect the execution time of commands in the original qd=1 sequence. The resequencing algorithm of the present invention increases IOPS and reduced read head actuator travel and wear.


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