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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
index 1333f8b1f5..2d7a24167f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -63,12 +63,26 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for:
 
 - Allmulticast mode
 
+- TCP segmentation offload (TSO)
+
 - Multicast MAC filter
 
 - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload
 
 - Received packet type information
 
+- Receive side scaling (RSS)
+
+- RSS hash
+
+- Scattered Rx DMA for packet that are larger that a single Rx descriptor
+
+- Deferred receive and transmit queue start
+
+- Transmit VLAN insertion (if running firmware variant supports it)
+
+- Flow API
+
 
 Non-supported Features
 ----------------------
@@ -89,8 +103,6 @@ The features not yet supported include:
 
 - VLAN stripping
 
-- Scattered receive
-
 - LRO
 
 
@@ -104,6 +116,49 @@ required in the receive buffer.
 It should be taken into account when mbuf pool for receive is created.
 
 
+Flow API support
+----------------
+
+Supported attributes:
+
+- Ingress
+
+Supported pattern items:
+
+- VOID
+
+- ETH (exact match of source/destination addresses, individual/group match
+  of destination address, EtherType)
+
+- VLAN (exact match of VID, double-tagging is supported)
+
+- IPV4 (exact match of source/destination addresses,
+  IP transport protocol)
+
+- IPV6 (exact match of source/destination addresses,
+  IP transport protocol)
+
+- TCP (exact match of source/destination ports)
+
+- UDP (exact match of source/destination ports)
+
+Supported actions:
+
+- VOID
+
+- QUEUE
+
+Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant.
+
+Ethernet destinaton individual/group match
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Ethernet item supports I/G matching, if only the corresponding bit is set
+in the mask of destination address. If destinaton address in the spec is
+multicast, it matches all multicast (and broadcast) packets, oherwise it
+matches unicast packets that are not filtered by other flow rules.
+
+
 Supported NICs
 --------------
 
@@ -171,6 +226,13 @@ whitelist option like "-w 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...".
 Case-insensitive 1/y/yes/on or 0/n/no/off may be used to specify
 boolean parameters value.
 
+- ``rx_datapath`` [auto|efx] (default **auto**)
+
+  Choose receive datapath implementation.
+  **auto** allows the driver itself to make a choice based on firmware
+  features available and required by the datapath implementation.
+  **efx** chooses libefx-based datapath which supports Rx scatter.
+
 - ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**)
 
   Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or
@@ -187,3 +249,12 @@ boolean parameters value.
   Enable extra logging of the communication with the NIC's management CPU.
   The logging is done using RTE_LOG() with INFO level and PMD type.
   The format is consumed by the Solarflare netlogdecode cross-platform tool.
+
+- ``stats_update_period_ms`` [long] (default **1000**)
+
+  Adjust period in milliseconds to update port hardware statistics.
+  The accepted range is 0 to 65535. The value of **0** may be used
+  to disable periodic statistics update. One should note that it's
+  only possible to set an arbitrary value on SFN8xxx provided that
+  firmware version is 6.2.1.1033 or higher, otherwise any positive
+  value will select a fixed update period of **1000** milliseconds