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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
index a4ea1629ed..5f825e9a39 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ Supported pattern items:
 
 - VOID
 
-- ETH (exact match of source/destination addresses, EtherType)
+- ETH (exact match of source/destination addresses, individual/group match
+  of destination address, EtherType)
 
 - VLAN (exact match of VID, double-tagging is supported)
 
@@ -137,6 +138,10 @@ Supported pattern items:
 - 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
@@ -145,6 +150,14 @@ Supported actions:
 
 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
 --------------
@@ -213,6 +226,30 @@ 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|ef10] (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.
+  **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is
+  more efficient than libefx-based and provides richer packet type
+  classification, but lacks Rx scatter support.
+
+- ``tx_datapath`` [auto|efx|ef10|ef10_simple] (default **auto**)
+
+  Choose transmit 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 VLAN insertion
+  (full-feature firmware variant only), TSO and multi-segment mbufs.
+  **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is
+  more efficient than libefx-based but has no VLAN insertion and TSO
+  support yet.
+  **ef10_simple** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which
+  is even more faster then **ef10** but does not support multi-segment
+  mbufs.
+
 - ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**)
 
   Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or
@@ -229,3 +266,12 @@ 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