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diff --git a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
index 7ae6fa8ffd..aa7d809649 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,54 @@ to use, i.e. igb_uio, vfio. The ``dpdk-devbind.py`` script can be used to
 show devices status and to bind them to a suitable kernel driver. They will
 appear under the category of "Misc (rawdev) devices".
 
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+NTB PMD needs kernel PCI driver to support write combining (WC) to get
+better performance. The difference will be more than 10 times.
+To enable WC, there are 2 ways.
+
+- Insert igb_uio with ``wc_activate=1`` flag if use igb_uio driver.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  insmod igb_uio.ko wc_activate=1
+
+- Enable WC for NTB device's Bar 2 and Bar 4 (Mapped memory) manually.
+  The reference is https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/mtrr.html
+  Get bar base address using ``lspci -vvv -s ae:00.0 | grep Region``.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  # lspci -vvv -s ae:00.0 | grep Region
+  Region 0: Memory at 39bfe0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
+  Region 2: Memory at 39bfa0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M]
+  Region 4: Memory at 39bfc0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M]
+
+Using the following command to enable WC.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  echo "base=0x39bfa0000000 size=0x20000000 type=write-combining" >> /proc/mtrr
+  echo "base=0x39bfc0000000 size=0x20000000 type=write-combining" >> /proc/mtrr
+
+And the results:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  # cat /proc/mtrr
+  reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
+  reg01: base=0x07f000000 ( 2032MB), size=   16MB, count=1: uncachable
+  reg02: base=0x39bfa0000000 (60553728MB), size=  512MB, count=1: write-combining
+  reg03: base=0x39bfc0000000 (60554240MB), size=  512MB, count=1: write-combining
+
+To disable WC for these regions, using the following.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+     echo "disable=2" >> /proc/mtrr
+     echo "disable=3" >> /proc/mtrr
+
 Ring Layout
 -----------
 
@@ -90,6 +138,16 @@ like the following:
       +------------------------+   +------------------------+
                     <---------traffic---------
 
+- Enqueue and Dequeue
+  Based on this ring layout, enqueue reads rx_tail to get how many free
+  buffers and writes used_ring and tx_tail to tell the peer which buffers
+  are filled with data.
+  And dequeue reads tx_tail to get how many packets are arrived, and
+  writes desc_ring and rx_tail to tell the peer about the new allocated
+  buffers.
+  So in this way, only remote write happens and remote read can be avoid
+  to get better performance.
+
 Limitation
 ----------