MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT AND MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20190073298A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-07

    申请号:US15798412

    申请日:2017-10-31

    Abstract: A memory management method, and a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage apparatus using the same are provided. The method includes associating physical erasing units with a data area or a spare area, configuring a plurality of logical addresses for mapping to the physical erasing units, and obtaining a garbage collection threshold based on a plurality of valid logical addresses among the logical addresses, and the physical erasing units mapping to the valid logical addresses are associated with the data area. The method further includes performing a garbage collection operation on the data area if the number of the physical erasing units associated with the data area is no less than the garbage collection threshold.

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