diff --git a/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go b/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go
index 30ef35663bf..56f1b7beb00 100644
--- a/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go
+++ b/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go
@@ -37,13 +37,6 @@ const (
 	UnprivilegedUserToken = "unprivileged-user"
 )
 
-// MinVerbosity determines the minimum klog verbosity when running tests that
-// involve the apiserver.  This overrides the -v value from the command line,
-// i.e. -v=0 has no effect when MinVerbosity is 4 (the default).  Tests can opt
-// out of this by setting MinVerbosity to zero before starting the control
-// plane or choose some different minimum verbosity.
-var MinVerbosity = 4
-
 // DefaultOpenAPIConfig returns an openapicommon.Config initialized to default values.
 func DefaultOpenAPIConfig() *openapicommon.Config {
 	openAPIConfig := genericapiserver.DefaultOpenAPIConfig(openapi.GetOpenAPIDefinitions, openapinamer.NewDefinitionNamer(legacyscheme.Scheme))
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
index f41ebe34461..27d4f41067e 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@
     intervalMilliseconds: 1000
   - opcode: createPods
     countParam: $measurePods
-    podTemplatePath: config/templates//pod-default.yaml
+    podTemplatePath: config/templates/pod-default.yaml
     collectMetrics: true
   workloads:
   - name: 10Nodes
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
index 70563096953..1994b299e4a 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ func newDefaultComponentConfig() (*config.KubeSchedulerConfiguration, error) {
 // Notes on rate limiter:
 //   - client rate limit is set to 5000.
 func mustSetupCluster(tCtx ktesting.TContext, config *config.KubeSchedulerConfiguration, enabledFeatures map[featuregate.Feature]bool, outOfTreePluginRegistry frameworkruntime.Registry) (informers.SharedInformerFactory, ktesting.TContext) {
-	// Run API server with minimimal logging by default. Can be raised with -v.
-	framework.MinVerbosity = 0
-
 	// No alpha APIs (overrides api/all=true in https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/d647d19f6aef811bace300eec96a67644ff303d4/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/cmd/server/testing/testserver.go#L136),
 	// except for DRA API group when needed.
 	runtimeConfig := []string{"api/alpha=false"}