Patent · US Active

Reducing access contention in flash-based memory systems

US8285946B2 · kind B2 · utility

5Cited by
3References
20Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateDec 15, 2009
Grant dateOct 9, 2012
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 4, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2212/7208
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments include a method for reducing access contention in a flash-based memory system, the method including selecting a chip stripe in a free state, from a memory device having a plurality of channels and a plurality of memory blocks, wherein the chip stripe includes a plurality of pages, setting the ship stripe to a write state, setting a write queue head in each of the plurality of channels, for each of the plurality of channels in the flash stripe, setting a write queue head to a first free page in a chip belonging to the channel from the chip stripe, allocating write requests according to a write allocation scheduler among the channels, generating a page write and in response to the page write, incrementing the write queue head, and setting the chip stripe into an on-line state when it is full.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.