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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
index 0a05a0a238..c02e1beda1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for:
 
 - Transmit VLAN insertion (if running firmware variant supports it)
 
+- Flow API
+
 
 Non-supported Features
 ----------------------
@@ -114,6 +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
 --------------
 
@@ -197,3 +242,12 @@ 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