Patent ID: 11893273
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the OS is further configured to:
in response to a second write request including second data to write to a third page located in the volatile memory, wherein the second write request is received prior to the first unlock request: lock the third page and copy contents of the third page to a fourth page located in the PMEM, and then write the second data to the fourth page; and
in response to the first unlock request and to a second unlock request including an instruction to unlock the third page: unlock the first page and the third page, update the first mapping from referencing the first page to referencing the second page, and update a second mapping of the tiered memory system from referencing the third page to referencing the fourth page.