diff --git a/scripts/simplebench/img_bench_templater.py b/scripts/simplebench/img_bench_templater.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Process img-bench test templates
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2021 Virtuozzo International GmbH.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+
+import sys
+import subprocess
+import re
+import json
+
+import simplebench
+from results_to_text import results_to_text
+from table_templater import Templater
+
+
+def bench_func(env, case):
+    test = templater.gen(env['data'], case['data'])
+
+    p = subprocess.run(test, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                       stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, universal_newlines=True)
+
+    if p.returncode == 0:
+        try:
+            m = re.search(r'Run completed in (\d+.\d+) seconds.', p.stdout)
+            return {'seconds': float(m.group(1))}
+        except Exception:
+            return {'error': f'failed to parse qemu-img output: {p.stdout}'}
+    else:
+        return {'error': f'qemu-img failed: {p.returncode}: {p.stdout}'}
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+        print("""
+Usage: img_bench_templater.py < path/to/test-template.sh
+
+This script generates performance tests from a test template (example below),
+runs them, and displays the results in a table. The template is read from
+stdin.  It must be written in bash and end with a `qemu-img bench` invocation
+(whose result is parsed to get the test instance’s result).
+
+Use the following syntax in the template to create the various different test
+instances:
+
+  column templating: {var1|var2|...} - test will use different values in
+  different columns. You may use several {} constructions in the test, in this
+  case product of all choice-sets will be used.
+
+  row templating: [var1|var2|...] - similar thing to define rows (test-cases)
+
+Test template example:
+
+Assume you want to compare two qemu-img binaries, called qemu-img-old and
+qemu-img-new in your build directory in two test-cases with 4K writes and 64K
+writes. The template may look like this:
+
+qemu_img=/path/to/qemu/build/qemu-img-{old|new}
+$qemu_img create -f qcow2 /ssd/x.qcow2 1G
+$qemu_img bench -c 100 -d 8 [-s 4K|-s 64K] -w -t none -n /ssd/x.qcow2
+
+When passing this to stdin of img_bench_templater.py, the resulting comparison
+table will contain two columns (for two binaries) and two rows (for two
+test-cases).
+
+In addition to displaying the results, script also stores results in JSON
+format into results.json file in current directory.
+""")
+        sys.exit()
+
+    templater = Templater(sys.stdin.read())
+
+    envs = [{'id': ' / '.join(x), 'data': x} for x in templater.columns]
+    cases = [{'id': ' / '.join(x), 'data': x} for x in templater.rows]
+
+    result = simplebench.bench(bench_func, envs, cases, count=5,
+                               initial_run=False)
+    print(results_to_text(result))
+    with open('results.json', 'w') as f:
+        json.dump(result, f, indent=4)
diff --git a/scripts/simplebench/table_templater.py b/scripts/simplebench/table_templater.py
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+# Parser for test templates
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2021 Virtuozzo International GmbH.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+import itertools
+from lark import Lark
+
+grammar = """
+start: ( text | column_switch | row_switch )+
+
+column_switch: "{" text ["|" text]+ "}"
+row_switch: "[" text ["|" text]+ "]"
+text: /[^|{}\[\]]+/
+"""
+
+parser = Lark(grammar)
+
+class Templater:
+    def __init__(self, template):
+        self.tree = parser.parse(template)
+
+        c_switches = []
+        r_switches = []
+        for x in self.tree.children:
+            if x.data == 'column_switch':
+                c_switches.append([el.children[0].value for el in x.children])
+            elif x.data == 'row_switch':
+                r_switches.append([el.children[0].value for el in x.children])
+
+        self.columns = list(itertools.product(*c_switches))
+        self.rows = list(itertools.product(*r_switches))
+
+    def gen(self, column, row):
+        i = 0
+        j = 0
+        result = []
+
+        for x in self.tree.children:
+            if x.data == 'text':
+                result.append(x.children[0].value)
+            elif x.data == 'column_switch':
+                result.append(column[i])
+                i += 1
+            elif x.data == 'row_switch':
+                result.append(row[j])
+                j += 1
+
+        return ''.join(result)