skip_isolation_on_order(9)

🌸 skip_isolation_on_order(9) 🌸

okay bestie, you're looking at the Kernel API Manual page for skip_isolation_on_order(9) — it's giving tiny boolean helper energy, and honestly? iconic ✨

💖 NAME 💖

skip_isolation_on_order — determine when to skip folio isolation based on folio order and compaction target order 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool skip_isolation_on_order (int order , int target_order );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• order — the to-be-isolated folio order 🌸
• target_order — the compaction target order 🎯

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

lowkey the whole point: this avoids unnecessary folio isolations during compaction. no extra drama, just skipping the isolations that don't need to happen. periodt 🔥

🔎 SEE ALSO 🔎

Kernel file ./mm/compaction.c — go hang out with isolate_freepages_range(9), isolate_migratepages_block(9), isolate_migratepages_range(9), and try_to_compact_pages(9) 🫶

xoxo, signing off from ./mm in October 2026 💖✨