Doc: Improve benchmark documentation (#9927)

Signed-off-by: Rafael Vasquez <[email protected]>

docs/source/dev/profiling/profiling_index.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-Profiling vLLM 
-=================================
+==============
+Profiling vLLM
+==============
 
 We support tracing vLLM workers using the ``torch.profiler`` module. You can enable tracing by setting the ``VLLM_TORCH_PROFILER_DIR`` environment variable to the directory where you want to save the traces: ``VLLM_TORCH_PROFILER_DIR=/mnt/traces/``
 

docs/source/index.rst

@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ Documentation
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
-   :caption: Performance benchmarks
+   :caption: Performance
 
-   performance_benchmark/benchmarks
+   performance/benchmarks
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

docs/source/performance/benchmarks.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+.. _benchmarks:
+
+================
+Benchmark Suites
+================
+
+vLLM contains two sets of benchmarks:
+
++ :ref:`Performance benchmarks <performance_benchmarks>`
++ :ref:`Nightly benchmarks <nightly_benchmarks>`
+
+
+.. _performance_benchmarks:
+
+Performance Benchmarks
+----------------------
+
+The performance benchmarks are used for development to confirm whether new changes improve performance under various workloads. They are triggered on every commit with both the ``perf-benchmarks`` and ``ready`` labels, and when a PR is merged into vLLM.
+
+The latest performance results are hosted on the public `vLLM Performance Dashboard <https://perf.vllm.ai>`_.
+
+More information on the performance benchmarks and their parameters can be found `here <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/.buildkite/nightly-benchmarks/performance-benchmarks-descriptions.md>`__.
+
+.. _nightly_benchmarks:
+
+Nightly Benchmarks
+------------------
+
+These compare vLLM's performance against alternatives (``tgi``, ``trt-llm``, and ``lmdeploy``) when there are major updates of vLLM (e.g., bumping up to a new version). They are primarily intended for consumers to evaluate when to choose vLLM over other options and are triggered on every commit with both the ``perf-benchmarks`` and ``nightly-benchmarks`` labels. 
+
+The latest nightly benchmark results are shared in major release blog posts such as `vLLM v0.6.0 <https://blog.vllm.ai/2024/09/05/perf-update.html>`_.
+
+More information on the nightly benchmarks and their parameters can be found `here <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/.buildkite/nightly-benchmarks/nightly-descriptions.md>`__.