diff --git a/doc/common/tables/swift-memcache-memcache.xml b/doc/common/tables/swift-memcache-memcache.xml
index 8a4105b91c..8207544573 100644
--- a/doc/common/tables/swift-memcache-memcache.xml
+++ b/doc/common/tables/swift-memcache-memcache.xml
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
     <tbody>
       <tr>
         <td><option>connect_timeout</option> = <replaceable>0.3</replaceable></td>
-        <td>No help text available for this option.</td>
+        <td>Timeout in seconds (float) for connection</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><option>io_timeout</option> = <replaceable>2.0</replaceable></td>
-        <td>No help text available for this option.</td>
+        <td>Timeout in seconds (float) for read and write</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><option>memcache_max_connections</option> = <replaceable>2</replaceable></td>
@@ -30,19 +30,19 @@
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><option>memcache_serialization_support</option> = <replaceable>2</replaceable></td>
-        <td>No help text available for this option.</td>
+        <td>Sets how memcache values are serialized and deserialized</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><option>memcache_servers</option> = <replaceable>127.0.0.1:11211</replaceable></td>
-        <td>Comma separated list of memcached servers ip:port services</td>
+        <td>Comma-separated list of memcached servers ip:port services</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><option>pool_timeout</option> = <replaceable>1.0</replaceable></td>
-        <td>No help text available for this option.</td>
+        <td>Timeout in seconds (float) for pooled connection</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><option>tries</option> = <replaceable>3</replaceable></td>
-        <td>No help text available for this option.</td>
+        <td>Number of servers to retry on failures getting a pooled connection</td>
       </tr>
     </tbody>
   </table>