Scratchpad cache for gaming and iot hosts

A data storage device, comprising:

• non-volatile memory (NVM) including a first memory location and a second memory location;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the NVM, the one or more processors, individually or in combination, configured to:
• allocate the first memory location of the NVM as scratchpad memory for a host;
• receive a first command including first data from a first submission queue associated with the scratchpad memory, the first submission queue including requests for volatile data;
• store the first data in the scratchpad memory;
• disable an update to a logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping table for the first data in the scratchpad memory;
• receive a second command including second data from a second submission queue associated with the NVM, the second submission queue including requests for non-volatile data;
• and
• store the second data in the second memory location.

A data storage device, comprising:

• non-volatile memory (NVM) including a first memory location and a second memory location;
• means for allocating the first memory location of the NVM as scratchpad memory for a host;
• means for receiving a first command including first data from a first submission queue associated with the scratchpad memory and a second command including second data from a second submission queue associated with the NVM, the first submission queue including requests for volatile data and the second submission queue including requests for non-volatile data;
• means for storing the first data in the scratchpad memory, the second data in the second memory location, and an update to a logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping table for the second data in the second memory location;
• and
• means for disabling another update to the L2P mapping table for the first data in the scratchpad memory;
• wherein the update includes a first amount of data in a first L2P entry for the stored first data and the another update includes a second amount of data in a second L2P entry for the stored second data different than the first amount of data, the first amount of data being a first L2P granularity of the stored first data, and the second amount of data being a second L2P granularity of the stored second data.