US 11,994,995 B2
Prefetching operations in storage devices
Heekwon Park, Cupertino, CA (US); Ho bin Lee, San Jose, CA (US); Ilgu Hong, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Yang Seok Ki, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/740,219.
Application 17/740,219 is a continuation of application No. 16/887,567, filed on May 29, 2020, granted, now 11,327,891.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/903,642, filed on Sep. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0365878 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 12/0862 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 2212/602 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6022 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of adjusting caching operations, the method comprising:
retrieving target data from a buffer of a first cache;
determining that the buffer of the first cache has overflown;
pausing a caching operation of the first cache in response to the determining that the buffer of the first cache has overflown such that requests to a memory device that correspond to the caching operation are paused;
inserting an entry comprising a symbol representing additional target data into a second cache;
determining the entry is present in the second cache; and
reinitiating the caching operation of the first cache in response to the determining that the entry is present in the second cache.