Full changelog here:

http://www.canonware.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=jemalloc.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;hb=master

Notable improvements from the point of view of Redis:

1) Bugfixing.
2) Support for Valgrind.
3) Support for OSX Lion, FreeBSD.

Fix `install` target on OSX (see #495)

Support for Illumos event ports

redis-cli.c uses the time() function to seed the PRNG, but time.h was
not included. This was not noticed since sys/time.h is included and was
enough in most systems (but not correct). With Ubuntu 12.04 GCC
generates a warning that made us aware of the issue.

activeExpireCycle() can consume no more than a few milliseconds per
iteration. This commit improves the precision of the check for the time
elapsed in two ways:

1) We check every 16 iterations instead of the main loop instead of 256.
2) We reset iterations at the start of the function and not every time
   we switch to the next database, so the check is correctly performed
   every 16 iterations.

A previous commit introduced REDIS_HZ define that changes the frequency
of calls to the serverCron() Redis function. This commit improves
different related things:

1) Software watchdog: now the minimal period can be set according to
REDIS_HZ. The minimal period is two times the timer period, that is:

    (1000/REDIS_HZ)*2 milliseconds

2) The incremental rehashing is now performed in the expires dictionary
as well.

3) The activeExpireCycle() function was improved in different ways:

- Now it checks if it already used too much time using microseconds
  instead of milliseconds for better precision.
- The time limit is now calculated correctly, in the previous version
  the division was performed before of the multiplication resulting in
  a timelimit of 0 if HZ was big enough.
- Databases with less than 1% of buckets fill in the hash table are
  skipped, because getting random keys is too expensive in this
  condition.

4) tryResizeHashTables() is now called at every timer call, we need to
   match the number of calls we do to the expired keys colleciton cycle.

5) REDIS_HZ was raised to 100.

Redis uses a function called serverCron() that is very similar to the
timer interrupt of an operating system. This function is used to handle
a number of asynchronous things, like active expired keys collection,
clients timeouts, update of statistics, things related to the cluster
and replication, triggering of BGSAVE and AOF rewrite process, and so
forth.

In the past the timer was called 1 time per second. At some point it was
raised to 10 times per second, but it still was fixed and could not be
changed even at compile time, because different functions called from
serverCron() assumed a given fixed frequency.

This commmit makes the frequency configurable, so that it is simpler to
pick a good tradeoff between overhead of this function (that is usually
very small) and the responsiveness of Redis during a few critical
circumstances where a lot of work is done inside the timer.

An example of such a critical condition is mass-expire of a lot of keys
in the same second. Up to a given percentage of CPU time is used to
perform expired keys collection per expire cylce. Now changing the
REDIS_HZ macro it is possible to do less work but more times per second
in order to block the server for less time.

If this patch will work well in our tests it will enter Redis 2.6-final.

If a large amonut of keys are all expiring about at the same time, the
"active" expired keys collection cycle used to block as far as the
percentage of already expired keys was >= 25% of the total population of
keys with an expire set.

This could block the server even for many seconds in order to reclaim
memory ASAP. The new algorithm uses at max a small amount of
milliseconds per cycle, even if this means reclaiming the memory less
promptly it also means a more responsive server.

Compare integers in ziplist regardless of encoding

Because of the introduction of new integer encoding types for ziplists
in the 2.6 tree, the same integer value may have a different encoding in
different versions of the ziplist implementation. This means that the
encoding can NOT be used as a fast path in comparing integers.

- PIDFILE environ variable was not properly retrieved
- chkconfig command failed

The new implementation start reading / writing before blocking with
aeWait(), likely the descriptor can accept writes or has buffered data
inside and we can go faster, otherwise we get an error and wait.

This change has effects on speed but also on correctness: on socket
errors when we perform non blocking connect(2) write is performed ASAP
and the error is returned ASAP before waiting.

So the practical effect is that now a Redis slave is more available if it
can not connect to the master, previously the slave continued to block on
syncWrite() trying to send SYNC, and serving commands very slowly.

We used to reply -ERR ... message ..., now the reply is
instead -MASTERDOWN ... message ... so that it can be distinguished
easily by the other error conditions.

Use safe dictionary iterator from KEYS (fixes #487)

Every matched key in a KEYS call is checked for expiration. When the key
is set to expire, the call to `getExpire` will assert that the key also
exists in the main dictionary. This in turn causes a rehashing step to
be executed. Rehashing a dictionary when there is an iterator active may
result in the iterator emitting duplicate entries, or not emitting some
entries at all. By using a safe iterator, the rehash step is omitted.