diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6df5ba0..9105e26 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ doc/guides/cryptodevs/overview_feature_table.txt
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/overview_cipher_table.txt
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/overview_auth_table.txt
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/overview_aead_table.txt
+doc/guides/compressdevs/overview_feature_table.txt
 cscope.out.po
 cscope.out.in
 cscope.out
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d2dd61c..a22f37f 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -766,6 +766,18 @@ F: doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst
 F: doc/guides/cryptodevs/features/zuc.ini
 
 
+Compression Drivers
+-------------------
+M: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
+T: git://dpdk.org/next/dpdk-next-crypto
+F: doc/guides/compressdevs/features/default.ini
+
+ISA-L PMD
+M: Lee Daly <lee.daly@intel.com>
+F: drivers/compress/isal
+F: doc/guides/compressdevs/isal.rst
+F: doc/guides/compressdevs/features/isal.ini
+
 Eventdev Drivers
 ----------------
 M: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
diff --git a/devtools/test-build.sh b/devtools/test-build.sh
index 3362edc..66f3ece 100755
--- a/devtools/test-build.sh
+++ b/devtools/test-build.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ default_path=$PATH
 # - DPDK_DEP_SSL (y/[n])
 # - DPDK_DEP_SZE (y/[n])
 # - DPDK_DEP_ZLIB (y/[n])
+# - DPDK_DEP_ISAL (y/[n])
 # - DPDK_MAKE_JOBS (int)
 # - DPDK_NOTIFY (notify-send)
 # - FLEXRAN_SDK
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ reset_env ()
 	unset DPDK_DEP_SSL
 	unset DPDK_DEP_SZE
 	unset DPDK_DEP_ZLIB
+	unset DPDK_DEP_ISAL
 	unset AESNI_MULTI_BUFFER_LIB_PATH
 	unset ARMV8_CRYPTO_LIB_PATH
 	unset FLEXRAN_SDK
@@ -178,6 +180,8 @@ config () # <directory> <target> <options>
 		test "$DPDK_DEP_ZLIB" != y || \
 		sed -ri          's,(BNX2X_PMD=)n,\1y,' $1/.config
 		sed -ri            's,(NFP_PMD=)n,\1y,' $1/.config
+		test "$DPDK_DEP_ISAL" != y || \
+		sed -ri          's,(ISAL_PMD=)n,\1y,' $1/.config
 		test "$DPDK_DEP_PCAP" != y || \
 		sed -ri               's,(PCAP=)n,\1y,' $1/.config
 		test -z "$ARMV8_CRYPTO_LIB_PATH" || \
diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/features/default.ini b/doc/guides/compressdevs/features/default.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..795fc55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/features/default.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+;
+; Features of a default compression driver.
+;
+; This file defines the features that are valid for inclusion in
+; the other driver files and also the order that they appear in
+; the features table in the documentation.
+;
+[Features]
+HW Accelerated =
+CPU SSE        =
+CPU AVX        =
+CPU AVX2       =
+CPU AVX512     =
+CPU NEON       =
+Stateful       =
+By-Pass        =
+Chained mbufs  =
+Deflate        =
+LZS            =
+Adler32        =
+Crc32          =
+Adler32&Crc32  =
+Fixed          =
+Dynamic        =
diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/features/isal.ini b/doc/guides/compressdevs/features/isal.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad2718d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/features/isal.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+;
+; Refer to default.ini for the full list of available PMD features.
+;
+; Supported features of 'ISA-L' compression driver.
+;
+[Features]
+HW Accelerated =
+CPU SSE        = Y
+CPU AVX        = Y
+CPU AVX2       = Y
+CPU AVX512     = Y
+CPU NEON       =
+Stateful       =
+By-Pass        =
+Chained mbufs  =
+Deflate        = Y
+LZS            =
+Adler32        =
+Crc32          =
+Adler32&Crc32  =
+Fixed          = Y
+Dynamic        = Y
diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/index.rst b/doc/guides/compressdevs/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc59ce8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
+
+Compression Device Drivers
+==========================
+
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+    :numbered:
+
+    overview
+    isal
diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/isal.rst b/doc/guides/compressdevs/isal.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b20321
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/isal.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
+
+ISA-L Compression Poll Mode Driver
+==================================
+
+The ISA-L PMD (**librte_pmd_isal_comp**) provides poll mode compression &
+decompression driver support for utilizing Intel ISA-L library,
+which implements the deflate algorithm for both compression and decompression
+
+Features
+--------
+
+ISA-L PMD has support for:
+
+Compression/Decompression algorithm:
+
+* DEFLATE
+
+Huffman code type:
+
+* FIXED
+* DYNAMIC
+
+Window size support:
+
+* 32K
+
+Limitations
+-----------
+
+* Chained mbufs are not supported, for future release.
+
+* Compressdev level 0, no compression, is not supported. ISA-L level 0 used for fixed huffman codes.
+
+* Checksums are not supported, for future release.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+* To build DPDK with Intel's ISA-L library, the user is required to download the library from `<https://github.com/01org/isa-l>`_.
+
+* Once downloaded, the user needs to build the library, the ISA-L autotools are usually sufficient::
+
+    ./autogen.sh
+    ./configure
+
+* make can  be used to install the library on their system, before building DPDK::
+
+    make
+    sudo make install
+
+* To build with meson, the **libisal.pc** file, must be copied into "pkgconfig", e.g. /usr/lib/pkgconfig or /usr/lib64/pkgconfig depending on your system, for meson to find the ISA-L library. The **libisal.pc** is located in library sources::
+
+    cp isal/libisal.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
+
+
+Initialization
+--------------
+
+In order to enable this virtual compression PMD, user must:
+
+* Set ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_ISAL=y`` in config/common_base.
+
+To use the PMD in an application, user must:
+
+* Call ``rte_vdev_init("compress_isal")`` within the application.
+
+* Use ``--vdev="compress_isal"`` in the EAL options, which will call ``rte_vdev_init()`` internally.
+
+The following parameter (optional) can be provided in the previous two calls:
+
+* ``socket_id:`` Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going to be allocated
+  (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core that is creating the PMD is running on).
diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/overview.rst b/doc/guides/compressdevs/overview.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca37de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/overview.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
+
+Compression Device Supported Functionality Matrices
+===================================================
+
+Supported Feature Flags
+-----------------------
+
+.. _table_compression_pmd_features:
+
+.. include:: overview_feature_table.txt
diff --git a/doc/guides/conf.py b/doc/guides/conf.py
index 38de280..c883306 100644
--- a/doc/guides/conf.py
+++ b/doc/guides/conf.py
@@ -388,6 +388,11 @@ def setup(app):
                             'AEAD',
                             'AEAD algorithms in crypto drivers',
                             'AEAD algorithm')
+    table_file = dirname(__file__) + '/compressdevs/overview_feature_table.txt'
+    generate_overview_table(table_file, 1,
+                            'Features',
+                            'Features availability in compression drivers',
+                            'Feature')
 
     if LooseVersion(sphinx_version) < LooseVersion('1.3.1'):
         print('Upgrade sphinx to version >= 1.3.1 for '
diff --git a/doc/guides/index.rst b/doc/guides/index.rst
index d60529d..18fe0ec 100644
--- a/doc/guides/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/index.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ DPDK documentation
    nics/index
    bbdevs/index
    cryptodevs/index
+   compressdevs/index
    eventdevs/index
    mempool/index
    platform/index
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index ce70d1f..d6a9d6f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ New Features
 * **Added a new compression poll mode driver using Intels ISA-L.**
 
    Added the new ``ISA-L`` compression driver, for compression and decompression
-   operations in software.
+   operations in software. See the :doc:`../compressdevs/isal` compression driver
+   guide for details on this new driver.
 
 
 API Changes
