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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Srinivas Neppalli, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert M. Fallone, Newport Beach, CA (US);
William B. Boyle, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Srinivas Neppalli, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert M. Fallone, Newport Beach, CA (US);
William B. Boyle, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for opportunistically defragmenting a data storage device during garbage collection. During garbage collection, valid data is identified and cached in a buffer assigned to the garbage collection process. When the buffer has been filled or reached a threshold, the valid data in the buffer is then coalesced and rewritten back to the data storage medium. In addition, a translation table is reduced by updating its entries to indicate the new locations of the coalesced valid data.
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