公开(公告)号：US20240264777A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18639614

申请日：2024-04-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Matthew J. BYOM ,  Tudor ANTONIU ,  Alexander PALEY ,  Andrew W. VOGAN ,  Muhammad N. ASHRAF

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/0875

CPC classification number: G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0679 ,  G06F12/0875 ,  G06F2212/1016

Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for balancing write commands directed to a non-volatile memory. According to some embodiments, a method may include caching a plurality of write commands into a write cache, and, in response to determining that an available capacity of the write cache satisfies a first threshold value: performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to the first partition of the non-volatile memory in response to determining that an available capacity of a first partition of the non-volatile memory satisfies a second threshold value; and performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to a second partition of the non-volatile memory in response to determining that the available capacity of the first partition of the non-volatile memory does not satisfy the second threshold value.

公开(公告)号：US20220326877A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：US17222978

申请日：2021-04-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Matthew J. BYOM ,  Tudor ANTONIU ,  Alexander PALEY ,  Andrew W. VOGAN ,  Muhammad N. ASHRAF

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/0875

Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for balancing write commands directed to a non-volatile memory. According to some embodiments, a method may include caching a plurality of write commands into a write cache, and, in response to determining that an available capacity of the write cache satisfies a first threshold value: performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to the first partition of the non-volatile memory in response to determining that an available capacity of a first partition of the non-volatile memory satisfies a second threshold value; and performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to a second partition of the non-volatile memory in response to determining that the available capacity of the first partition of the non-volatile memory does not satisfy the second threshold value.