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

Claim 9:
10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:
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: locking the third page and copying contents of the third page to a fourth page located in the PMEM, and then writing 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: unlocking the first page and the third page, updating the first mapping from referencing the first page to referencing the second page, and updating a second mapping of the tiered memory system from referencing the third page to referencing the fourth page.