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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2014
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Kanishk Rastogi, Maharashtra, IN;
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods that implement a less-recently-used data eviction mechanism for identifying a memory block of a cache for eviction. The less-recently-used mechanism can achieve a similar functionality as the least-recently-used data eviction mechanism, but at a lower memory requirement. A memory controller can implement the less-recently-used data eviction mechanism by selecting a memory block and determining whether the memory block is one of the less-recently-used memory blocks. If so, the memory controller can evict data in the selected memory block; if not, the memory controller can continue to select other memory blocks until the memory controller selects one of the less-recently-used memory blocks.