Methods, systems, and devices for cache management in a memory subsystem are described. A device may determine to perform an eviction procedure for a bank of a volatile memory that operates as a cache for a non-volatile memory. The eviction procedure may save data from the bank of the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory. The device may determine an activity status for at least one buffer in a pool of buffers that are coupled with the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory. The device may select the at least one buffer in the pool of buffers for the eviction procedure for the bank of the volatile memory based at least in part on the activity status for that buffer.