Invention Grant
US08495284B2 Wear leveling for low-wear areas of low-latency random read memory
有权
低延迟随机读取存储器的低磨损区域的磨损均衡
- Patent Title: Wear leveling for low-wear areas of low-latency random read memory
- Patent Title (中): 低延迟随机读取存储器的低磨损区域的磨损均衡
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Application No.: US13185211Application Date: 2011-07-18
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Publication No.: US08495284B2Publication Date: 2013-07-23
- Inventor: Rahul N. Iyer , Garth R. Goodson
- Applicant: Rahul N. Iyer , Garth R. Goodson
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Stattler-Suh PC
- Main IPC: G06F12/16
- IPC: G06F12/16

Abstract:
Described herein are method and apparatus for performing wear leveling of erase-units of an LLRRM device that considers all active erase-units. Wear counts of all active erase-units (containing client data) and free erase-units (not containing client data) are tracked. Wear counts are used to determine low-wear active erase-units having relatively low wear counts and high-wear free erase-units having relatively high wear counts. In some embodiments, data contents of low-wear active erase-units are transferred to high-wear free erase-units, whereby the low-wear active erase-units are converted to free erase-units and may later store different client data which may increase the current rate of wear for the erase-unit. The high-wear free erase-units are converted to active erase-units that store client data that is infrequently erased/written, which may reduce the current rate of wear for the erase-unit. As such, wear is spread more evenly among erase-units of the LLRRM device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110271046A1 WEAR LEVELING FOR LOW-WEAR AREAS OF LOW-LATENCY RANDOM READ MEMORY Public/Granted day:2011-11-03
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