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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
+
+Mempool Device Driver
+=====================
+
+The following are a list of mempool PMDs, which can be used from an
+application through the mempool API.
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+    :numbered:
+
+    octeontx
+    octeontx2
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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
+
+OCTEON TX FPAVF Mempool Driver
+==============================
+
+The OCTEON TX FPAVF PMD (**librte_mempool_octeontx**) is a mempool
+driver for offload mempool device found in **Cavium OCTEON TX** SoC
+family.
+
+More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
+<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+Features of the OCTEON TX FPAVF PMD are:
+
+- 32 SR-IOV Virtual functions
+- 32 Pools
+- HW mempool manager
+
+Supported OCTEON TX SoCs
+------------------------
+
+- CN83xx
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+See :doc: `../platform/octeontx.rst` for setup information.
+
+Pre-Installation Configuration
+------------------------------
+
+Config File Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
+Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS`` ( set to ``octeontx_fpavf``)
+
+  Set default mempool ops to octeontx_fpavf.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_MEMPOOL`` (default ``y``)
+
+  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_mempool_octeontx`` driver.
+
+Driver Compilation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To compile the OCTEON TX FPAVF MEMPOOL PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
+following ``make`` command:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
+   make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc
+
+
+Initialization
+--------------
+
+The OCTEON TX fpavf mempool initialization similar to other mempool
+drivers like ring. However user need to pass --base-virtaddr as
+command line input to application example test_mempool.c application.
+
+Example:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    ./build/app/test -c 0xf --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \
+                        --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf"
diff --git a/src/spdk/dpdk/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst b/src/spdk/dpdk/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst
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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2019 Marvell International Ltd.
+
+OCTEON TX2 NPA Mempool Driver
+=============================
+
+The OCTEON TX2 NPA PMD (**librte_mempool_octeontx2**) provides mempool
+driver support for the integrated mempool device found in **Marvell OCTEON TX2** SoC family.
+
+More information about OCTEON TX2 SoC can be found at `Marvell Official Website
+<https://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/infrastructure-processors/>`_.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+OCTEON TX2 NPA PMD supports:
+
+- Up to 128 NPA LFs
+- 1M Pools per LF
+- HW mempool manager
+- Ethdev Rx buffer allocation in HW to save CPU cycles in the Rx path.
+- Ethdev Tx buffer recycling in HW to save CPU cycles in the Tx path.
+
+Prerequisites and Compilation procedure
+---------------------------------------
+
+   See :doc:`../platform/octeontx2` for setup information.
+
+Pre-Installation Configuration
+------------------------------
+
+Compile time Config Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following option can be modified in the ``config`` file.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX2_MEMPOOL`` (default ``y``)
+
+  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_mempool_octeontx2`` driver.
+
+Runtime Config Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- ``Maximum number of mempools per application`` (default ``128``)
+
+  The maximum number of mempools per application needs to be configured on
+  HW during mempool driver initialization. HW can support up to 1M mempools,
+  Since each mempool costs set of HW resources, the ``max_pools`` ``devargs``
+  parameter is being introduced to configure the number of mempools required
+  for the application.
+  For example::
+
+    -w 0002:02:00.0,max_pools=512
+
+  With the above configuration, the driver will set up only 512 mempools for
+  the given application to save HW resources.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Since this configuration is per application, the end user needs to
+   provide ``max_pools`` parameter to the first PCIe device probed by the given
+   application.
+
+- ``Lock NPA contexts in NDC``
+
+   Lock NPA aura and pool contexts in NDC cache.
+   The device args take hexadecimal bitmask where each bit represent the
+   corresponding aura/pool id.
+
+   For example::
+
+      -w 0002:02:00.0,npa_lock_mask=0xf
+
+Debugging Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. _table_octeontx2_mempool_debug_options:
+
+.. table:: OCTEON TX2 mempool debug options
+
+   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+   | # | Component  | EAL log command                                       |
+   +===+============+=======================================================+
+   | 1 | NPA        | --log-level='pmd\.mempool.octeontx2,8'                |
+   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Standalone mempool device
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+   The ``usertools/dpdk-devbind.py`` script shall enumerate all the mempool devices
+   available in the system. In order to avoid, the end user to bind the mempool
+   device prior to use ethdev and/or eventdev device, the respective driver
+   configures an NPA LF and attach to the first probed ethdev or eventdev device.
+   In case, if end user need to run mempool as a standalone device
+   (without ethdev or eventdev), end user needs to bind a mempool device using
+   ``usertools/dpdk-devbind.py``
+
+   Example command to run ``mempool_autotest`` test with standalone OCTEONTX2 NPA device::
+
+     echo "mempool_autotest" | build/app/test -c 0xf0 --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx2_npa"