Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage device that maintains a plurality of layers of address mapping
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Application No.: US15438687Application Date: 2017-02-21
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Publication No.: US10255178B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Shinichi Kanno
- Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
- Current Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kim & Stewart LLP
- Priority: JP2016-173680 20160906
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02

Abstract:
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory, a cache memory, and a processor configured to load, from the nonvolatile memory into the cache memory, a fragment of each layer of an address mapping corresponding to a target logical address, and access the nonvolatile memory at a physical address mapped from the target logical address, by referring to the fragments of the layers of the address mapping loaded into the cache memory. The layers are arranged in a hierarchy and each layer of the address mapping except for the lowermost layer indicates correspondence between each of segmented logical address ranges mapped in the layer and a physical location of an immediately-lower layer in which said each segmented logical address range is further mapped in a narrower range. The lowermost layer indicates correspondence between each logical address mapped therein and a physical location of the nonvolatile memory associated therewith.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180067849A1 STORAGE DEVICE THAT MAINTAINS A PLURALITY OF LAYERS OF ADDRESS MAPPING Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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