Memory system and garbage collection control method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11853204
APP PUB NO 20230103470A1
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18064135

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According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a controller which controls garbage collection for preparing one or more free blocks by writing valid data read from N blocks to one or more blocks of less than the N. The controller calculates a performance ratio between writing of data in response to a request from a host device and writing of data for the garbage collection in accordance with a data writable capacity remaining in a nonvolatile memory, calculates an average performance ratio from calculated performance ratios of M generations including a calculated latest performance ratio, and adjusts a performance cycle of the garbage collection by applying one of the calculated latest performance ratio and the calculated average performance ratio.

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  • KIOXIA CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Masuo, Yoko Iruma, JP 33 153
Mitsumasu, Yosuke Hadano, JP 5 12

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