ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,873, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Fast execution of barrier command" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Rotem Sela (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to read and write operations utilizing barrier commands. Using barrier commands and a snapshot of doorbell states of submission queues (SQs), the necessary write commands to perform a read may be identified and executed to reduce any wait time of the host. As such, host delays during reads and writes are reduced. In absence of a barri...