Pull request for all the remaining patches, including the new performance monitors.

On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 07:21 -0700, Jens Breitbart wrote:
> True. It's best to deprecate it for now.

Additionally, you may want use it for verifying that the new control
strategy and the data logger play nice with the established
infrastructure. I have done some testing in that regard, but the test
matrix quickly exploded.