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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
index 1a426438d1..8af32dabf6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ICE Poll Mode Driver
 ======================
 
 The ice PMD (librte_pmd_ice) provides poll mode driver support for
-10/25 Gbps Intel® Ethernet 810 Series Network Adapters based on
+10/25/50/100 Gbps Intel® Ethernet 810 Series Network Adapters based on
 the Intel Ethernet Controller E810.
 
 
@@ -20,6 +20,22 @@ Prerequisites
 - To get better performance on Intel platforms, please follow the "How to get best performance with NICs on Intel platforms"
   section of the :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>`.
 
+Recommended Matching List
+-------------------------
+
+It is highly recommended to upgrade the ice kernel driver and firmware and
+DDP packages to avoid the compatibility issues with ice PMD. Here is the
+suggested matching list.
+
+   +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
+   |     DPDK version     | Kernel driver version | Firmware version | DDP OS Package | DDP COMMS Package |
+   +======================+=======================+==================+================+===================+
+   |        19.11         |        0.12.25        |     1.1.16.39    |      1.3.4     |       1.3.10      |
+   +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
+   | 19.08 (experimental) |        0.10.1         |     1.1.12.7     |      1.2.0     |        N/A        |
+   +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
+   | 19.05 (experimental) |        0.9.4          |     1.1.10.16    |      1.1.0     |        N/A        |
+   +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
 
 Pre-Installation Configuration
 ------------------------------
@@ -38,10 +54,6 @@ Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
 
   Toggle display of generic debugging messages.
 
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC`` (default ``y``)
-
-  Toggle bulk allocation for RX.
-
 - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_16BYTE_RX_DESC`` (default ``n``)
 
   Toggle to use a 16-byte RX descriptor, by default the RX descriptor is 32 byte.
@@ -80,6 +92,18 @@ Runtime Config Options
 
     -w 80:00.0,pipeline-mode-support=1
 
+- ``Flow Mark Support`` (default ``0``)
+
+  This is a hint to the driver to select the data path that supports flow mark extraction
+  by default.
+  NOTE: This is an experimental devarg, it will be removed when any of below conditions
+  is ready.
+  1) all data paths support flow mark (currently vPMD does not)
+  2) a new offload like RTE_DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK be introduced as a standard way to hint.
+  Example::
+
+    -w 80:00.0,flow-mark-support=1
+
 - ``Protocol extraction for per queue``
 
   Configure the RX queues to do protocol extraction into mbuf for protocol