Techniques to group media blocks

An apparatus, comprising:

• a controller associated with a host device, wherein the controller is configured to cause the apparatus to:
• receive, by a storage layer, a request from an application for a set of virtual addresses of a memory map of a set of media blocks of a memory device, wherein the memory device comprises a set of files, each file comprising a respective set of media blocks;
• generate, by the storage layer, the memory map in a virtual address space for the application, wherein the memory map comprises a plurality of sub-maps within a consecutive region of the virtual address space, and wherein each sub-map of the plurality of sub-maps corresponds to a respective subset of consecutive media blocks of one of the set of files;
• and
• return, to the application based on receiving the request, the set of virtual addresses of the memory map corresponding to the set of media blocks.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

• receive, by a storage layer, a request from an application for a set of virtual addresses of a memory map of a set of media blocks of a memory device, wherein the memory device comprises a set of files, each file comprising a respective set of media blocks;
• generate, by the storage layer, the memory map in a virtual address space for the application, wherein the memory map comprises a plurality of sub-maps within a consecutive region of the virtual address space, and wherein each sub-map of the plurality of sub-maps corresponds to a respective subset of consecutive media blocks of one of the set of files;
• and
• return, to the application based on receiving the request, the set of virtual addresses of the memory map corresponding to the set of media blocks.