Managing memory command engine using command sequence analysis
Various embodiments described herein provide for using analysis of a sequence of commands (issued by a host system) to manage a memory command component, such as a read engine or a write engine of a memory system.
1. A system comprising:
a memory device;
a write component to write data to the memory device;
a read component to read data from the memory device; and
a processing device, operably coupled to the memory device, configured to perform operations comprising:
storing, in a command queue of the system, commands received from a host system; and
while one or more commands are being retrieved from the command queue for execution:
analyzing the command queue to detect when a sequence of read commands are queued next to be retrieved from the command queue for execution by the read component; and
in response to detecting the sequence of read commands:
determining a number of read commands in the sequence of read commands;
determining whether the number surpasses a read command threshold; and
in response to determining that the number surpasses the read command threshold:
determining whether a current status of the write component indicates that the write component is idle; and
at least one of:
in response to determining that the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is idle, disabling the write component; or
in response to determining that the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is not idle, disabling the write component after the current status of the write component changes to indicate that the write component is idle.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the analyzing the command queue to detect when the sequence of read commands are queued next to be retrieved from the command queue for execution by the read component comprises:
iterating through the command queue according to an order in which the one or more commands are stored in the command queue.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the command queue comprises a command table, each command is stored in the command table in association with a tag, and the order is determined based on an order in which tags are allocated to commands stored in the command table.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the disabling of the write component comprises disabling components of the write component based on mapping data that describes components associated with the write component.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations comprise:
in response to determining that the number does not surpass the read command threshold:
determining a current status of the write component;
determining whether the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is disabled; and
in response to determining that the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is disabled:
determining a time to execute any remaining read commands in the sequence of read commands;
determining whether the time to execute is less than a latency time parameter; and
in response to determining that the time to execute is less than the latency time parameter, enabling the write component.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the latency time parameter is user-defined.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the read command threshold is user-defined.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is part of a memory sub-system controller of the system, and the command queue is stored in a local memory of the memory sub-system controller.
9. A method comprising:
storing, in a command queue of a memory system, commands received from a host system; and
while one or more commands are being retrieved from the command queue for execution:
analyzing the command queue to detect when a sequence of write commands are queued next to be retrieved from the command queue for execution by a write component of a memory system; and
in response to detecting the sequence of write commands:
determining a number of write commands in the sequence of write commands;
determining whether the number surpasses a write command threshold; and
in response to determining that the number surpasses the write command threshold:
determining whether a current status of a read component of the memory system indicates that the read component is idle; and
in response to determining that the current status of the read component indicates that the read component is idle, disabling the read component.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the analyzing the command queue to detect when the sequence of write commands are queued next to be retrieved from the command queue for execution by the write component comprises:
iterating through the command queue according to an order in which the one or more commands are received by the command queue from the host system.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the disabling of the read component comprises disabling components of the read component based on mapping data that describes components associated with the read component.
12. The method of claim 9 , comprises:
in response to determining that the number does not surpass the write command threshold:
determining a current status of the read component;
determining that the current status of the read component indicates that the read component is disabled; and
in response to determining that the current status of the read component indicates that the read component is disabled:
determining a time to execute any remaining write commands in the sequence of write commands;
determining whether the time to execute is less than a latency time parameter; and
in response to determining that the time to execute is less than the latency time parameter, enabling the read component.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the latency time parameter is user-defined.
14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the write command threshold is user-defined.
15. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device of a memory system, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
storing, in a command queue of a memory system, commands from a host system; and
while one or more commands are being retrieved from the command queue for execution:
analyzing, in the command queue, a sequence of commands of a same command type, the sequence of commands being queued next to be retrieved from the command queue for execution by the memory system; and
causing a read component of the memory system to be enabled or disabled based on a current status of the read component and based on analysis of the sequence of commands, the causing the read component to be enabled or disabled comprises:
determining whether the current status of the read component indicates that the read component is idle; and
in response to determining that the current status of the read component indicates that the read component is idle, disabling the read component.
16. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations comprise:
causing a write component of the memory system to be enabled or disabled based on a current status of the write component and based on analysis of the sequence of commands.
17. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the causing the write component to be enabled or disabled based on the current status of the write component and based on analysis of the sequence of commands comprises:
determining whether the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is idle; and
in response to determining that the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is idle, disabling the write component.
18. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the causing the write component to be enabled or disabled based on the current status of the write component and based on analysis of the sequence of commands comprises:
determining whether the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is idle; and
in response to determining that the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is not idle, disabling the write component after the current status of the write component changes to indicate that the write component is idle.
19. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the causing the write component to be enabled or disabled based on the current status of the write component and based on analysis of the sequence of commands comprises:
determining whether the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is idle; and
in response to determining that the current status of the write component indicates that the write component is not idle:
determining a number of the sequence of read commands; and
in response to determining that the number surpasses a read command threshold:
redetermining the current status of the write component; and
enabling or disabling the write component based on the current status of the write component as redetermined.
20. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the analyzing the sequence of commands of the same command type comprises:
iterating through the command queue according to an order in which the one or more commands are stored in the command queue.