Reviewed-by: xdono

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Reviewed-by: igor, prr, ant

Summary: Introduce a new Interface to mark the Loops based pipes and initialise the loops accordingly.
Reviewed-by: flar, rkennke

Summary: Added new performance counters in the JDK to track performance metrics
Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, iris, forax, andrew

Reviewed-by: prr, hawtin

Reviewed-by: art, anthony, igor, alexp

Reviewed-by: art

Summary: forward-port from 6u14, no public API is introduced
Reviewed-by: anthony, dcherepanov

Reviewed-by: campbell

Reviewed-by: campbell, flar

Reviewed-by: campbell

Reviewed-by: prr

Summary: Forward port of the new Direct3D 9 rendering pipeline from 6u10. Also includes fixes for 6690659 6689025 6658398 6596234.
Reviewed-by: campbell, prr

Reviewed-by: tdv, campbell
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <roman.kennke@aicas.com>