Add benchmark tooling

This adds a way to compare benchmarks that we use in kube-state-metrics
already, hopefully allowing for better comparisons when applying
changes.

Co-authored-by: Manuel Rüger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Valdes <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/benchmark-pr.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+---
+name: Benchmarks on AMD64
+permissions: read-all
+on: [pull_request]
+jobs:
+  benchmark-pull-request:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest-8-cores
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@0ad4b8fadaa221de15dcec353f45205ec38ea70b # v4.1.4
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+    - id: goversion
+      run: echo "goversion=$(cat .go-version)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+    - uses: actions/setup-go@0c52d547c9bc32b1aa3301fd7a9cb496313a4491 # v5.0.0
+      with:
+        go-version: ${{ steps.goversion.outputs.goversion }}
+    - name: Install Benchstat
+      run: make install-benchstat
+    - name: Run Benchmarks
+      run: |
+        BENCHSTAT_FORMAT=csv BENCHSTAT_OUTPUT_FILE=result.csv make test-benchmark-compare REF=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+        echo "$(head -n1 result.csv),,," > output.csv # Add three missing cols from header
+        tail -n+2 result.csv >> output.csv
+    - name: Read CSV
+      id: read-csv
+      uses: juliangruber/read-file-action@b549046febe0fe86f8cb4f93c24e284433f9ab58 # v1.1.7
+      with:
+        path: ./output.csv
+    - name: Create Markdown Table
+      uses: petems/csv-to-md-table-action@401501a2cdf2512164c1be3b70411976a2b838b9 # v4.0.0
+      id: csv-table-output
+      with:
+        csvinput: ${{ steps.read-csv.outputs.content }}
+    - run: |
+        echo "${{ steps.csv-table-output.outputs.markdown-table }}" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"

Makefile

@@ -94,3 +94,14 @@ test-failpoint:
 test-robustness: gofail-enable build
 	sudo env PATH=$$PATH go test -v ${TESTFLAGS} ./tests/dmflakey -test.root
 	sudo env PATH=$(PWD)/bin:$$PATH go test -v ${TESTFLAGS} ${ROBUSTNESS_TESTFLAGS} ./tests/robustness -test.root
+
+.PHONY: test-benchmark-compare
+# Runs benchmark tests on the current git ref and the given REF, and compares
+# the two.
+test-benchmark-compare:
+	@git fetch
+	./scripts/compare_benchmarks.sh $(REF)
+
+.PHONY: install-benchstat
+install-benchstat:
+	go install golang.org/x/perf/cmd/benchstat@latest

scripts/compare_benchmarks.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/blob/main/tests/compare_benchmarks.sh (originally written by mxinden)
+
+# exit immediately when a command fails
+set -e
+# only exit with zero if all commands of the pipeline exit successfully
+set -o pipefail
+# error on unset variables
+set -u
+
+[[ "$#" -eq 1 ]] || echo "One argument required, $# provided."
+
+REF_CURRENT="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
+REF_TO_COMPARE=$1
+
+RESULT_CURRENT="$(mktemp)-${REF_CURRENT}"
+RESULT_TO_COMPARE="$(mktemp)-${REF_TO_COMPARE}"
+
+TIMEOUT=${TIMEOUT:-30m}
+BENCH_COUNT=${BENCH_COUNT:-3}
+BENCHSTAT_CONFIDENCE_LEVEL=${BENCHSTAT_CONFIDENCE_LEVEL:-0.75}
+BENCHSTAT_FORMAT=${BENCHSTAT_FORMAT:-"text"}
+
+if [[ "${BENCHSTAT_FORMAT}" == "csv" ]] && [[ -z "${BENCHSTAT_OUTPUT_FILE}" ]]; then
+  echo "BENCHSTAT_FORMAT is set to csv, but BENCHSTAT_OUTPUT_FILE is not set."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "### Testing ${REF_CURRENT}"
+
+go test -timeout="${TIMEOUT}" -count="${BENCH_COUNT}" -benchmem -run=NONE -bench=. ./... | tee "${RESULT_CURRENT}"
+
+# Filter benchark lines, so benchstat can parse the output.
+grep ^Benchmark "${RESULT_CURRENT}" > "${RESULT_CURRENT}".tmp && mv "${RESULT_CURRENT}".tmp "${RESULT_CURRENT}"
+
+echo ""
+echo "### Done testing ${REF_CURRENT}"
+
+echo ""
+echo "### Testing ${REF_TO_COMPARE}"
+
+git checkout "${REF_TO_COMPARE}"
+
+go test -timeout="${TIMEOUT}" -count="${BENCH_COUNT}" -benchmem -run=NONE -bench=. ./... | tee "${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}"
+
+# Filter benchark lines, so benchstat can parse the output.
+grep ^Benchmark "${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}" > "${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}".tmp && mv "${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}".tmp "${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}"
+
+echo ""
+echo "### Done testing ${REF_TO_COMPARE}"
+
+git checkout -
+
+echo ""
+echo "### Result"
+echo "old=${REF_TO_COMPARE} new=${REF_CURRENT}"
+
+if [[ "${BENCHSTAT_FORMAT}" == "csv" ]]; then
+  benchstat -format=csv -confidence="${BENCHSTAT_CONFIDENCE_LEVEL}" BASE="${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}" HEAD="${RESULT_CURRENT}" 2>/dev/null 1>"${BENCHSTAT_OUTPUT_FILE}"
+else
+  benchstat -confidence="${BENCHSTAT_CONFIDENCE_LEVEL}" BASE="${RESULT_TO_COMPARE}" HEAD="${RESULT_CURRENT}"
+fi