[man] Add entries for sgen modes and new major/minor types

diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1
index b23581535c583425416b8a9dc3fdf8ae78451a89..17f8f99d2aa57e4f184faa7761d33d5c5549b410 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mono.1
+++ b/man/mono.1
@@ -1304,10 +1304,19 @@ first generation (of two).  A larger nursery will usually speed up the
 program but will obviously use more memory.  The default nursery size
 4 MB.
 .TP
-\fBmajor=\fIcollector\fR Specifies which major collector to use.
-Options are `marksweep' for the Mark&Sweep collector, and
-`marksweep-conc' for concurrent Mark&Sweep.  The non-concurrent
-Mark&Sweep collector is the default.
+\fBmajor=\fIcollector\fR
+Specifies which major collector to use.
+Options are `marksweep' for the Mark&Sweep collector, `marksweep-conc'
+for concurrent Mark&Sweep and `marksweep-conc-par' for parallel and
+concurrent Mark&Sweep.  The concurrent Mark&Sweep collector is the default.
+.TP
+\fBmode=balanced|throughput|pause\fR[:\fImax-pause\fR]
+Specifies what should be the garbage collector's target. The `throughput'
+mode aims to reduce time spent in the garbage collector and improve
+application speed, the `pause' mode aims to keep pause times to a minimum
+and it receives the argument \fImax-pause\fR which specifies the maximum
+pause time in milliseconds that is acceptable and the `balanced' mode
+which is a general purpose optimal mode.
 .TP
 \fBsoft-heap-limit=\fIsize\fR
 Once the heap size gets larger than this size, ignore what the default
@@ -1370,9 +1379,11 @@ more memory when it reaches a stable size.
 This option is EXPERIMENTAL, so it might disappear in later versions of mono.
 .TP
 \fBminor=\fIminor-collector\fR
-Specifies which minor collector to use. Options are 'simple' which
-promotes all objects from the nursery directly to the old generation
-and 'split' which lets object stay longer on the nursery before promoting.
+Specifies which minor collector to use. Options are `simple' which
+promotes all objects from the nursery directly to the old generation,
+`simple-par' which has same promotion behavior as `simple' but using
+multiple workers and `split' which lets objects stay longer on the nursery
+before promoting.
 .TP
 \fBalloc-ratio=\fIratio\fR
 Specifies the ratio of memory from the nursery to be use by the alloc space.