Introduce temporary GitLab & GHA benchmarking jobs (paritytech#10311)

* Introduce temporary bench job

* Add runner label

* CI: bench GHA

* CI: bench GHA

* CI: docs

* CI: more docs

* CI: run on master only

Co-authored-by: Denis P <denis.pisarev@parity.io>

.github/workflows/bench_gh_gl.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# Please do not tamper with this job, it's a part of benchmarking experiment.
+# However, you absolutely can copy it into another file and redo the last job in the pipeline.
+# Just make sure you won't introduce long queues to the GHA runner, we have just one at the moment.
+
+name: bench GHA against GitLab
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+jobs:
+  bench_gh:
+    runs-on:                       self-hosted
+    env:
+      CARGO_INCREMENTAL:           0
+      RUSTUP_HOME:                 /usr/local/rustup
+      CARGO_HOME:                  /usr/local/cargo
+      CC:                          clang
+      CXX:                         clang
+
+    steps:
+
+      - name:                      Cancel Previous Runs
+        uses:                      styfle/cancel-workflow-action@0.9.1
+        with:
+          access_token:            ${{ github.token }}
+
+      - name:                      Install dependencies
+        # Template job, one can copy it to another pipeline.
+        run:                       |
+          apt-get update
+          apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends time clang
+          update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/cc cc /usr/bin/clang 100
+
+      - name:                      Install Rust
+        # Template job, one can copy it to another pipeline.
+        # Referance code https://github.com/paritytech/scripts/blob/master/dockerfiles/base-ci-linux/Dockerfile
+        # Better keep Rust versions here in sync with the CI image, otherwise the results will conflict.
+        run:                       |
+          curl -L "https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/rustup-init" -o rustup-init
+          chmod +x rustup-init
+          ./rustup-init -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain stable
+          rm rustup-init
+            # add rustup tp PATH so it's usable right away
+          echo "/usr/local/cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          source /usr/local/cargo/env
+          chmod -R a+w ${RUSTUP_HOME} ${CARGO_HOME}
+            # install nightly toolchain
+          rustup toolchain install nightly-2021-11-08 --profile minimal --component rustfmt clippy
+            # link the pinned toolchain to nightly
+          ln -s /usr/local/rustup/toolchains/nightly-2021-11-08-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu /usr/local/rustup/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+          rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
+          rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly
+            # show versions
+          rustup show
+          cargo --version
+            # remove clutter from the installations
+          rm -rf "${CARGO_HOME}/registry" "${CARGO_HOME}/git"
+
+      - name:                      Checkout sources
+        uses:                      actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name:                      bench-GHA-test-full-crypto-feature
+        # GitHub env variables reference: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/environment-variables
+        # The important part of the experiment is the line with `curl`: it sends the job's timing to Prometheus.
+        run:                       |
+          START_TIME=`date '+%s'`
+          cd primitives/core/
+          time cargo +nightly build --verbose --no-default-features --features full_crypto
+          cd ../application-crypto
+          time cargo +nightly build --verbose --no-default-features --features full_crypto
+          END_TIME=`date '+%s'`
+          TOTAL_TIME=`expr $END_TIME - $START_TIME`
+            # please remove this line if you want to play with GHA runner.
+          curl -d "parity_github_job_time{project=\"$GITHUB_REPOSITORY\",job=\"$GITHUB_WORKFLOW\",runner=\"github\"} $TOTAL_TIME" -X POST http://vm-longterm.parity-build.parity.io/api/v1/import/prometheus

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -538,6 +538,35 @@ test-full-crypto-feature:
     - time cargo +nightly build --verbose --no-default-features --features full_crypto
     - sccache -s
 
+
+# Mostly same as the job above, additional instrumentation was added to push test run times
+# to the time series database.
+# This is temporary and will be eventually removed.
+bench-test-full-crypto-feature:
+  stage:                           test
+  <<:                              *docker-env
+  <<:                              *build-refs
+  variables:
+    <<:                            *default-vars
+    RUSTFLAGS:                     "-Cdebug-assertions=y"
+    RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
+  before_script: [""]
+  script:
+    # disable sccache for the bench purposes
+    - unset RUSTC_WRAPPER
+    - START_TIME=`date '+%s'`
+    - cd primitives/core/
+    - time cargo +nightly build --verbose --no-default-features --features full_crypto
+    - cd ../application-crypto
+    - time cargo +nightly build --verbose --no-default-features --features full_crypto
+    - END_TIME=`date '+%s'`
+    - TOTAL_TIME=`expr $END_TIME - $START_TIME`
+    # send the job time measuring to the prometheus endpoint
+    - curl -d "parity_gitlab_job_time{project=\"$CI_PROJECT_PATH\",job=\"$CI_JOB_NAME\",runner=\"gitlab\"} $TOTAL_TIME" -X POST $VM_LONGTERM_URI/api/v1/import/prometheus
+  tags:
+    - linux-docker-compare
+
+
 test-wasmer-sandbox:
   stage:                           test
   <<:                              *docker-env