Co #10897: Storage benchmarking (#4982)

* Add storage benchmarking

Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <oliver.tale-yazdi@parity.io>

* update lockfile for {"substrate"}

Co-authored-by: parity-processbot <>

polkadot/cli/src/cli.rs

@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ pub enum Subcommand {
 	#[clap(name = "benchmark", about = "Benchmark runtime pallets.")]
 	Benchmark(frame_benchmarking_cli::BenchmarkCmd),
 
+	#[clap(name = "benchmark-storage", about = "Benchmark storage speed.")]
+	BenchmarkStorage(frame_benchmarking_cli::StorageCmd),
+
 	/// Runs performance checks such as PVF compilation in order to measure machine
 	/// capabilities of running a validator.
 	HostPerfCheck,

polkadot/cli/src/command.rs

@@ -475,6 +475,22 @@ pub fn run() -> Result<()> {
 			#[cfg(not(feature = "polkadot-native"))]
 			panic!("No runtime feature (polkadot, kusama, westend, rococo) is enabled")
 		},
+		Some(Subcommand::BenchmarkStorage(cmd)) => {
+			let runner = cli.create_runner(cmd)?;
+			let chain_spec = &runner.config().chain_spec;
+			set_default_ss58_version(chain_spec);
+
+			Ok(runner.async_run(|mut config| {
+				let (client, backend, _, task_manager) = service::new_chain_ops(&mut config, None)?;
+				let db = backend.expose_db();
+				let storage = backend.expose_storage();
+
+				Ok((
+					cmd.run(config, client, db, storage).map_err(Error::SubstrateCli),
+					task_manager,
+				))
+			})?)
+		},
 		Some(Subcommand::HostPerfCheck) => {
 			let mut builder = sc_cli::LoggerBuilder::new("");
 			builder.with_colors(true);