Patent ID: 11940912
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
maintaining a logical-to-physical (L2P) table, wherein a plurality of sections of the L2P table is cached in a volatile memory device;
maintaining a total dirty count for the L2P table, wherein the total dirty count comprises a total number of updates to the L2P table;
maintaining, for the plurality of sections, respective section dirty counts, wherein each respective section dirty count comprises a total number of updates to a corresponding section;
determining that the total dirty count for the L2P table satisfies a threshold criterion;
in response to determining that the total dirty count for the L2P table satisfies the threshold criterion, identifying, based on the respective section dirty counts, a first section of the plurality of sections with a highest section dirty count; and
writing the first section of the L2P table to a non-volatile memory device.