Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for storage allocation
- Patent Title (中): 用于存储分配的系统和方法
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Application No.: US13865153Application Date: 2013-04-17
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Publication No.: US09563555B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: David Flynn , Nick Piggin , Nisha Talagala
- Applicant: Fusion-io, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Stoel Rives LLP
- Main IPC: G06F13/10
- IPC: G06F13/10 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F3/06 ; G11C16/06 ; G11C16/26 ; G11C16/34 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
Resources of an address space are managed in dynamically sized ranges, extents, sets, and/or blocks. The address space may be divided into regions, each corresponding to a different, respective allocation granularity. Allocating a block within a first region of the address space may comprise allocating a particular number of logical addresses (e.g., a particular range, set, and/or block of addresses), and allocating a block within a different region may comprise allocating a different number of logical addresses. The regions may be configured to reduce the metadata overhead needed to identify free address blocks (and/or maintain address block allocations), while facilitating efficient use of the address space for differently sized data structures.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130227236A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORAGE ALLOCATION Public/Granted day:2013-08-29
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