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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Avraham Meir, Rishon Le-Zion, IL;
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0806 (2013.01); G06F 12/0871 (2013.01); G06F 12/0893 (2013.01); G06F 12/0848 (2013.01); G06F 12/0864 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for data storage in a data storage system, which includes a main storage device and a non-volatile memory, includes assessing quality levels of respective memory blocks of the non-volatile memory. One or more of the memory blocks whose assessed quality levels are lower than a predefined quality threshold are identified. The identified memory blocks are assigned to serve as read cache memory. Data is read from the main storage device via the read cache memory, including the assigned memory blocks.