Fill factor now has two options:
- negative (1-5) for size-based ziplist filling
- positive for length-based ziplist filling with implicit size cap.
Negative offsets define ziplist size limits of:
-1: 4k
-2: 8k
-3: 16k
-4: 32k
-5: 64k
Positive offsets now automatically limit their max size to 8k. Any
elements larger than 8k will be in individual nodes.
Positive ziplist fill factors will keep adding elements
to a ziplist until one of:
- ziplist has FILL number of elements
- or -
- ziplist grows above our ziplist max size (currently 8k)
When using positive fill factors, if you insert a large
element (over 8k), that element will automatically allocate
an individual quicklist node with one element and no other elements will be
in the same ziplist inside that quicklist node.
When using negative fill factors, elements up to the size
limit can be added to one quicklist node. If an element
is added larger than the max ziplist size, that element
will be allocated an individual ziplist in a new quicklist node.
Tests also updated to start testing at fill factor -5.
This started out as #2158 by sunheehnus, but I kept rewriting it
until I could understand things more easily and get a few more
correctness guarantees out of the readability flow.
The original commit created and returned a new ziplist with the contents of
both input ziplists, but I prefer to grow one of the input ziplists
and destroy the other one.
So, instead of malloc+copy as in #2158, the merge now reallocs one of
the existing ziplists and copies the other ziplist into the new space.
Also added merge test cases to ziplistTest()
This replaces individual ziplist vs. linkedlist representations
for Redis list operations.
Big thanks for all the reviews and feedback from everybody in
https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/2143
