doc: add more information for manifest tiering

Signed-off-by: Samuel Just <sjust@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Myoungwon Oh <myoungwon.oh@samsung.com>

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+========
+Refcount
+========
+
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Dedupliation, as described in ../deduplication.rst, needs a way to
+maintain a target pool of deduplicated chunks with atomic ref
+refcounting.  To that end, there exists an osd object class 
+refcount responsible for using the object class machinery to
+maintain refcounts on deduped chunks and ultimately remove them
+as the refcount hits 0.
+
+Class Interface
+===============
+
+See cls/refcount/cls_refcount_client*
+
+* cls_refcount_get
+
+  Atomically increments the refcount with specified tag ::
+
+    void cls_refcount_get(librados::ObjectWriteOperation& op, const string& tag, bool implicit_ref = false);
+
+* cls_refcount_put
+
+  Atomically decrements the refcount specified by passed tag ::
+
+    void cls_refcount_put(librados::ObjectWriteOperation& op, const string& tag, bool implicit_ref = false);
+
+* cls_refcount_Set
+
+  Atomically sets the set of refcounts with passed list of tags ::
+
+    void cls_refcount_set(librados::ObjectWriteOperation& op, list<string>& refs);
+
+* cls_refcount_read
+
+  Dumps the current set of ref tags for the object ::
+
+    int cls_refcount_read(librados::IoCtx& io_ctx, string& oid, list<string> *refs, bool implicit_ref = false);
+
+