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diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
index 0243f9e4f6..440f3b1bac 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
@@ -589,10 +589,8 @@ typedef void (rte_mempool_ctor_t)(struct rte_mempool *, void *);
 /**
  * Create a new mempool named *name* in memory.
  *
- * This function uses ``memzone_reserve()`` to allocate memory. The
+ * This function uses ``rte_memzone_reserve()`` to allocate memory. The
  * pool contains n elements of elt_size. Its size is set to n.
- * All elements of the mempool are allocated together with the mempool header,
- * in one physically continuous chunk of memory.
  *
  * @param name
  *   The name of the mempool.
@@ -748,7 +746,7 @@ rte_mempool_xmem_create(const char *name, unsigned n, unsigned elt_size,
  *
  * The mempool is allocated and initialized, but it is not populated: no
  * memory is allocated for the mempool elements. The user has to call
- * rte_mempool_populate_*() or to add memory chunks to the pool. Once
+ * rte_mempool_populate_*() to add memory chunks to the pool. Once
  * populated, the user may also want to initialize each object with
  * rte_mempool_obj_iter().
  *
@@ -800,6 +798,10 @@ rte_mempool_free(struct rte_mempool *mp);
  * Add a virtually and physically contiguous memory chunk in the pool
  * where objects can be instanciated.
  *
+ * If the given physical address is unknown (paddr = RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR),
+ * the chunk doesn't need to be physically contiguous (only virtually),
+ * and allocated objects may span two pages.
+ *
  * @param mp
  *   A pointer to the mempool structure.
  * @param vaddr
@@ -948,7 +950,7 @@ uint32_t rte_mempool_mem_iter(struct rte_mempool *mp,
 	rte_mempool_mem_cb_t *mem_cb, void *mem_cb_arg);
 
 /**
- * Dump the status of the mempool to the console.
+ * Dump the status of the mempool to a file.
  *
  * @param f
  *   A pointer to a file for output