US Patent 10901627 Tracking persistent memory usage

Disclosed herein are techniques for balancing and reducing the number of write operations performed to each physical memory page of a storage-class memory. In one embodiment, a method includes tracking a count of write operations performed to each physical memory page or subpage of the storage-class memory using a memory management unit, a memory controller, a hypervisor, or an operating system, and selectively allocating physical memory pages of the storage-class memory with the least counts of write operations to a virtual machine or an operating system process using a ranking of the physical memory pages of the storage-class memory determined based at least partially on the count of write operations performed to each physical memory page or subpage of the storage-class memory.