DOCS-#2518: add asv usage topic (#2549)

* DOCS-#2518: add asv usage topic

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Myachev <[email protected]>

* DOCS-#2518: fix style

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Myachev <[email protected]>

* DOCS-#2518: address review comments

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Myachev <[email protected]>

docs/contributing.rst

@@ -165,6 +165,58 @@ subset of the test suite. In order to run a specific test run:
 
 The entire test suite is automatically run for each pull request.
 
+Performance measurement
+-----------------------
+
+We use Asv_ tool for performance tracking of various Modin functionality.
+
+Here are some scenarios in which Asv can be used:
+
+* It is necessary to check the impact of the new patch on the performance of a certain set of operations:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  asv continuous -f 1.05 src/master HEAD -b TimeGroupBy --launch-method=spawn
+
+* It is necessary to check presence of errors inside of benchmarks after making changes or writing new ones:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  asv run --quick --show-stderr --python=same --launch-method=spawn
+
+* You just need to run the entire test suite to get the current time numbers:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  asv run --launch-method=spawn
+
+* It is necessary to check the range of commits for performance degradation:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ asv run [start_hash]..[end_hash] --launch-method=spawn
+ asv publish
+ asv preview
+
+For more consistent results, you may need to use the following parameters:
+
+* ``-a sample_time=1``
+* ``-a warmup_time=1``
+* ``-a processes=4``
+
+Some details about using Modin on Ray with Asv:
+
+* ``--launch-method=forkserver`` is not working
+* Each set of parameters for each test is launched in its own process, which brings
+  a large overhead, since for each process redis server and other necessary binaries
+  from ray initialization are started and destroyed.
+
+Some details for maintenance:
+
+* ``modin/asv_bench/asv.conf.json`` contains the modin dependencies, with which testing takes place.
+We need to keep them up to date according to the dependencies in ``setup.py``.
+
+
 Building documentation
 ----------------------
 
@@ -204,4 +256,5 @@ More docs on this coming soon...
 .. _flake8: http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/
 .. _Github Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
 .. _testing:
+.. _Asv: https://github.com/airspeed-velocity/asv#airspeed-velocity
 .. _developer mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/modin-dev