diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md
index f1c4af4288e..0b2c07f2b26 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md
@@ -110,9 +110,12 @@ make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf KUBE_TEST_ARGS=-use
 ```
 
 Integration testing uses the same `config/performance-config.yaml` as
-benchmarking. By default, workloads labeled as `integration-test` are executed
-as part of integration testing. `-test-scheduling-label-filter` can be used to
-change that.
+benchmarking. By default, workloads labeled as `integration-test`
+are executed as part of integration testing. `-test-scheduling-label-filter` can be used to
+change that. 
 
-We should make each test case with `integration-test` label very small,
+Running the integration tests as above will only execute the workloads labeled as `short`.
+ `SHORT=--short=false` variable added to the command can be used to disable this filtering.
+
+We should make each test case with `short` label very small,
 so that all tests with the label should take less than 5 min to complete.
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
index ac7840200c6..ad5ba14dde3 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 # The following labels are used in this file:
 # - fast: short execution time, ideally less than 30 seconds
 # - integration-test: used to select workloads that
-#   run in pull-kubernetes-integration. Choosing those tests
+#   run in ci-kubernetes-integration-master. Choosing those tests
 #   is a tradeoff between code coverage and overall runtime.
-#   We should make each test case with integration-test label very small,
+# - short: used to select workloads that
+#   run in pull-kubernetes-integration.
+#   We should make each test case with short label very small,
 #   so that all tests with the label should take less than 5 min to complete.
+#   They can be run using --short=true flag.
 # - performance: used to select workloads that run
 #   in ci-benchmark-scheduler-perf. Such workloads
 #   must run long enough (ideally, longer than 10 seconds)
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_test.go b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_test.go
index a0beb47a39f..6ec8cb6212d 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_test.go
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ package benchmark
 
 import (
 	"testing"
+
+	"k8s.io/utils/ptr"
 )
 
 func TestScheduling(t *testing.T) {
@@ -29,6 +31,10 @@ func TestScheduling(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
+	if testing.Short() {
+		testSchedulingLabelFilter = ptr.To(*testSchedulingLabelFilter + ",+short")
+	}
+
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
 		t.Run(tc.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			for _, w := range tc.Workloads {