diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index edf2a8f529..b8cfd9a42d 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "modules/waf"]
 	path = modules/waf
 	url = git://github.com/diydrones/waf.git
+[submodule "modules/gbenchmark"]
+	path = modules/gbenchmark
+	url = git://github.com/google/benchmark.git
diff --git a/modules/gbenchmark b/modules/gbenchmark
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..006d23ccca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gbenchmark
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 006d23ccca1375a973b7fae0cc351cedb41b812a