Patent ID: 11954022
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A system, comprising:
a host system having a host buffer; and
a storage device having a plurality of dies of blocks of pages of data, wherein the storage device is coupled to the host system, wherein the host buffer includes reads and writes to blocks of data in the pages of the storage device, wherein the storage device includes logic to perform operations, the operations comprising:
performing garbage collection operations with respect to the blocks of pages to consolidate valid data from pages to fewer pages;
determining whether a processing measurement at the storage device satisfies a threshold;
setting a timer value to a positive value in response to determining that the processing measurement satisfies the threshold;
starting a timer to run for the timer value;
blocking writes from the host buffer while the timer is running, wherein writes remain in the host buffer while the timer is running; and
accepting a write from the host buffer to process in response to expiration of the timer.