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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2023
Smart Modular Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Andrew Mills, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Abstract
Migrating data between byte-addressable and block-addressable storage devices in processor-based devices is disclosed. In this regard, a processor of a processor-based device is communicatively coupled to both a byte-addressable storage device and a block-addressable storage device. The processor is configured to present the byte-addressable storage device and the block-addressable storage device as a single virtual storage device (i.e., as either a byte-addressable virtual device or a block-addressable virtual storage device). The processor is further configured to identify a low-activity region in the byte-addressable storage device, and to also identify a high-activity region in the block-addressable storage device. The processor then exchanges a first storage region corresponding to the low-activity region and comprising a memory address region of the byte-addressable storage device with a second storage region corresponding to the high-activity region and comprising a block region of the block-addressable storage device.