Patent ID: 11960723
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method for managing a memory associated with a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Solid-State Drive (SSD), the method comprising:
generating a plurality of memory pools from a memory, wherein each of the memory pools has the same size;
dividing each of the memory pools into a first set of memory pages, wherein each memory page of the first set of memory pages has a size equal to a maximum size of a memory request for the all of the memory pools;
dividing each memory page of the first set of memory pages into a second set of memory pages, wherein each memory page of the second set of memory pages has a size equal to a size of a memory request associated with its respective memory pool; and
allocating at least one memory page from the second set of memory pages in response to a read/write operation having a size corresponding to the size of the second set of memory pages.