There are two main aims of the paper. The first is to extend the criterion for the precompactness of sets in Banach function spaces to the setting of quasi-Banach function spaces.
The second is to extend the criterion for the precompactness of sets in the Lebesgue spaces Lp(Rn), 1< p < oo, to the so-called power quasi-Banach function spaces. These criteria are applied to establish compact embeddings of abstract Besov spaces into quasi-Banach function spaces.
The results are illustrated with examples.