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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
An Intelligent Garbage Collection Algorithm for Flash Memory Storages
Authors : Long-zhe Han, Yeonseung Ryu, Tae-sun Chung, Myungho Lee, Sukwon Hong
Published in: Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Flash memory cannot be overwritten unless erased in advance. In order to avoid having to erase during every update, non-in-place-update schemes have been used. Since updates are not performed in place, obsolete data are later reclaimed by garbage collection. In this paper, we study a new garbage collection algorithm to reduce the cleaning cost such as the number of erase operations and the number of data copies. The proposed scheme automatically predicts the future I/O workload and intelligently selects the victims according to the predicted I/O workload. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme performs well especially when the degree of locality is high.