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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2016
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdamn, NL;
Sriram Rupanagunta, Bangalore, IN;
Ashish Singhai, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sandeep Sharma, Karnataka, IN;
Srikant Sadasivam, Bangalore, IN;
Krishanth Skandakumaran, Los Gatos, CA (US);
George Moussa, Dublin, CA (US);
Rajendra Prasad Mishra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kenneth Alan Okin, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are operable to efficiently schedule memory device commands, such as flash memory device commands, while taking into account the interdependencies of processing such commands. As such embodiments of the present invention order commands to make sure that data is written and read from memory devices in a coherent fashion using command groups. Commands within such command groups are scheduled concurrently or in parallel. In this fashion, embodiments of the present invention promote efficient execution of memory device commands while maintaining any required arbitrary ordering requirements.