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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw/helpers.go b/bench/micro/hrw/helpers.go
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw/hrw_bench_internal_test.go b/bench/micro/hrw/hrw_bench_internal_test.go
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw1000/README.md b/bench/micro/hrw1000/README.md
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index abcf2a02a51..0785e210ddd 100644
--- a/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw1000/README.md
+++ b/bench/micro/hrw1000/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 $ go test -bench=. -benchtime=10s
 goos: linux
 goarch: amd64
-pkg: github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw1000
+pkg: github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/bench/micro/hrw1000
 cpu: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11850H @ 2.50GHz
 
 BenchmarkHRW/cluster[10]-bucket[4,000,000]-uname[80]-16                 554728353               19.12 ns/op
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ and one more time, for consistency:
 $ go test -bench=. -benchtime=10s
 goos: linux
 goarch: amd64
-pkg: github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw1000
+pkg: github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/bench/micro/hrw1000
 cpu: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11850H @ 2.50GHz
 BenchmarkHRW/cluster[10]-bucket[4,000,000]-uname[80]-16                 613542771               18.86 ns/op
 BenchmarkHRW/cluster[100]-bucket[4,000,000]-uname[80]-16                82590082               140.1 ns/op
diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/hrw1000/hrw_test.go b/bench/micro/hrw1000/hrw_test.go
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/integration/act_bench_test.go b/bench/micro/integration/act_bench_test.go
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/lstat/README.md b/bench/micro/lstat/README.md
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/lstat/basic_test.go b/bench/micro/lstat/basic_test.go
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/nstlvl/drop_caches_linux.go b/bench/micro/nstlvl/drop_caches_linux.go
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diff --git a/bench/microbenchmarks/nstlvl/nstlvl_test.go b/bench/micro/nstlvl/nstlvl_test.go
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index 87c852f80e4..562134be92c 100644
--- a/bench/microbenchmarks/nstlvl/nstlvl_test.go
+++ b/bench/micro/nstlvl/nstlvl_test.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/bench/microbenchmarks/nstlvl"
+	"github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/bench/micro/nstlvl"
 	"github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/cmn/cos"
 	"github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/tools/trand"
 )
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