Techniques for Identifying Read/Write Access Collisions for a Storage Medium

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a processor circuit for controlling a storage medium, a plurality of write access requests to the storage medium, each write access request associated with a separate logical block address (LBA) write range;
• storing a write LBA range for each write access request in sets of first registers;
• receiving a read access request to the storage medium associated with a read LBA range;
• storing the read LBA range to a set of second registers;
• comparing the read LBA range stored to the set of second registers to each of the write LBA ranges stored to the first set of registers;
• and
• determining whether the read LBA range overlaps with any one of the write LBA ranges.

At least one machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed by a controller for accessing a solid state drive causes the controller to:

• receive a plurality of write access requests to the storage medium, each write access request associated with a separate logical block address (LBA) write range;
• store a write LBA range for each write access request in sets of first registers;
• receive a read access request to the storage medium associated with a read LBA range;
• store the read LBA range to a set of second registers;
• compare the read LBA range stored to the set of second registers to each of the write LBA ranges stored to the first set of registers in a single clock cycle of a processor circuit for the controller;
• and
• determine whether the read LBA range overlaps with any one of the write LBA ranges.