diff --git a/test/component/scheduler/perf/test-performance.sh b/test/component/scheduler/perf/test-performance.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+pushd "../../../.."
+source "./hack/lib/util.sh"
+source "./hack/lib/logging.sh"
+source "./hack/lib/etcd.sh"
+popd
+
+cleanup() {
+  kube::etcd::cleanup
+  kube::log::status "performance test cleanup complete"
+}
+
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+kube::etcd::start
+kube::log::status "performance test start"
+
+# TODO: set log-dir and prof output dir.
+DIR_BASENAME=$(basename `pwd`)
+go test -c -o "${DIR_BASENAME}.test"
+# We are using the benchmark suite to do profiling. Because it only runs a few pods and
+# theoretically it has less variance.
+"./${DIR_BASENAME}.test" -test.bench=. -test.run=xxxx -test.cpuprofile=prof.out -logtostderr=false
+kube::log::status "benchmark tests finished"
+# Running density tests. It might take a long time.
+"./${DIR_BASENAME}.test" -test.run=. -test.timeout=60m
+kube::log::status "density tests finished"