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Doc: add section about OVS filtering tables 

Depends-On: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-lib/+/785590
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@ -102,6 +102,19 @@ future to support existing VLAN-tagged traffic (coming from NFV VMs
for instance) and/or to deal with potential QinQ support natively
available in the Open vSwitch.
OVS Filtering Tables
--------------------
ovs-neutron-agent and other L2 agent extensions use OVS filtering tables.
For the list of tables and the short name for them used in Neutron see
`ovs-neutron-agent constants`_
For a detailed discussion of Open vSwitch firewall driver and how the
filtering tables are used for security-groups see :doc:`openvswitch_firewall`.
.. _ovs-neutron-agent constants: https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron-lib/src/branch/master/neutron_lib/constants.py
Tackling the Network Trunking use case
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