- Patent Title: Aligning memory access operations to a geometry of a storage device
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Application No.: US14748194Application Date: 2015-06-23
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Publication No.: US10310740B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: John Colgrove , Peter E. Kirkpatrick
- Applicant: Pure Storage, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Agent Daniel E. Ovanezian
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
Aligning memory access operations to a geometry of a storage device, including: receiving, by a storage array controller, information describing the layout of memory in the storage device; determining, by the storage array controller, a write size in dependence upon the layout of memory in the storage device; and sending, by the storage array controller, a write request addressed to a location within the memory unit in dependence upon the layout of memory in the storage device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160378356A1 ALIGNING MEMORY ACCESS OPERATIONS TO A GEOMETRY OF A STORAGE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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