diff --git a/.build/build-bench.xml b/.build/build-bench.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..65854c6875
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.build/build-bench.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project basedir="." name="apache-cassandra-bench"
+         xmlns:if="ant:if" xmlns:unless="ant:unless">
+
+    <property name="async-profiler.version" value="2.9"/>
+    <condition property="async-profiler.suffix" value="linux-arm64">
+        <and>
+            <os arch="aarch64"/>
+            <isset property="isLinux"/>
+        </and>
+    </condition>
+    <condition property="async-profiler.suffix" value="linux-x64">
+        <and>
+            <os arch="amd64"/>
+            <isset property="isLinux"/>
+        </and>
+    </condition>
+    <condition property="async-profiler.suffix" value="macos">
+        <isset property="isMac"/>
+    </condition>
+    <property name="async-profiler.name" value="async-profiler-${async-profiler.version}-${async-profiler.suffix}"/>
+    <property name="async-profiler.base" value="${build.dir}/async-profiler"/>
+
+    <property name="test.profiler.opts.default" value="event=cpu;threads=true;output=flamegraph;simple=true;ann=true"/>
+    <property name="test.profiler.output" value="${build.test.dir}/profiler"/>
+
+    <target name="-microbench">
+        <jmh/>
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="-microbench-with-profiler" depends="-fetch-async-profiler">
+        <condition property="test.profiler.opts" value="${test.profiler.opts.default}" else="${profiler.opts}">
+            <or>
+                <not>
+                    <isset property="profiler.opts"/>
+                </not>
+                <equals arg1="${profiler.opts}" arg2=""/>
+            </or>
+        </condition>
+
+        <property name="async-profiler.lib.path" value="${async-profiler.base}/build/libasyncProfiler.so"/>
+
+        <mkdir dir="${test.profiler.output}"/>
+
+        <jmh>
+            <extra-args>
+                <arg value="-prof"/>
+                <arg value="async:libPath=${async-profiler.lib.path};dir=${test.profiler.output};${test.profiler.opts}"/>
+            </extra-args>
+        </jmh>
+    </target>
+
+    <macrodef name="jmh">
+        <element name="extra-args" optional="true"/>
+        <sequential>
+            <java classname="org.openjdk.jmh.Main" fork="true" failonerror="true" >
+                <classpath>
+                    <path refid="cassandra.classpath.test"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${test.classes}"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${test.conf}"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${async-profiler.base}/lib/async-profiler.jar"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${async-profiler.base}/lib/converter.jar"/>
+                </classpath>
+
+                <jvmarg line="${java-jvmargs}"/>
+                <jvmarg line="${_std-test-jvmargs}"/>
+                <jvmarg line="${test.jvm.args}"/>
+
+                <arg value="-foe"/>
+                <arg value="true"/>
+                <arg value="-rf"/>
+                <arg value="json"/>
+                <arg value="-rff"/>
+                <arg value="${build.test.dir}/jmh-result.json"/>
+                <arg value="-v"/>
+                <arg value="EXTRA"/>
+
+                <arg line="${jmh.args}"/>
+
+                <extra-args/>
+
+                <!-- TODO https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18873 -->
+                <arg value="-e" if:blank="${benchmark.name}"/>
+                <arg value="ZeroCopyStreamingBench|MutationBench|FastThreadLocalBench" if:blank="${benchmark.name}"/>
+
+                <arg value=".*microbench.*${benchmark.name}"/>
+            </java>
+        </sequential>
+    </macrodef>
+
+    <target name="-fetch-async-profiler">
+        <mkdir dir="${tmp.dir}"/>
+        <mkdir dir="${async-profiler.base}"/>
+
+        <antcall target="-fetch-async-profiler-mac" if:true="${isMac}" inheritrefs="true"/>
+        <antcall target="-fetch-async-profiler-linux" if:true="${isLinux}" inheritrefs="true"/>
+
+        <move todir="${async-profiler.base}">
+            <fileset dir="${async-profiler.base}/${async-profiler.name}">
+                <include name="**"/>
+            </fileset>
+        </move>
+        <delete dir="${async-profiler.base}/${async-profiler.name}" includeemptydirs="true"/>
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="-fetch-async-profiler-linux">
+        <get src="https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler/releases/download/v${async-profiler.version}/${async-profiler.name}.tar.gz"
+             dest="${tmp.dir}/${async-profiler.name}.tar.gz" retries="3" httpusecaches="true" skipexisting="true"/>
+        <gunzip src="${tmp.dir}/${async-profiler.name}.tar.gz" dest="${tmp.dir}/"/>
+        <untar src="${tmp.dir}/${async-profiler.name}.tar" dest="${async-profiler.base}/"/>
+        <delete file="${tmp.dir}/${async-profiler.name}.tar"/>
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="-fetch-async-profiler-mac">
+        <get src="https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler/releases/download/v${async-profiler.version}/${async-profiler.name}.zip"
+             dest="${tmp.dir}/${async-profiler.name}.zip" retries="3" httpusecaches="true" skipexisting="true"/>
+        <unzip src="${tmp.dir}/${async-profiler.name}.zip" dest="${async-profiler.base}/"/>
+    </target>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index f4c57d0444..fe15bbd4ab 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 Merged from 4.1:
  * Nodetool paxos-only repair is no longer incremental (CASSANDRA-18466)
 Merged from 4.0:
+ * JMH improvements - faster build and async profiler (CASSANDRA-18871)
  * Enable 3rd party JDK installations for Debian package (CASSANDRA-18844)
 Merged from 3.11:
 Merged from 3.0:
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 455c10ec02..b61e5a240f 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     <property name="test.classlistfile" value="testlist.txt"/>
     <property name="test.classlistprefix" value="unit"/>
     <property name="benchmark.name" value=""/>
+    <property name="jmh.args" value=""/>
     <property name="test.methods" value=""/>
     <property name="test.anttasks.src" value="${test.dir}/anttasks"/>
     <property name="test.unit.src" value="${test.dir}/unit"/>
@@ -144,6 +145,18 @@
     <property name="jacoco.partialexecfile" value="${jacoco.partials.dir}/partial.exec" />
     <property name="jacoco.finalexecfile" value="${jacoco.export.dir}/jacoco.exec" />
 
+    <condition property="isMac" value="true">
+        <os family="mac"/>
+    </condition>
+    <condition property="isLinux" value="true">
+        <and>
+            <os family="unix"/>
+            <not>
+                <os family="mac"/>
+            </not>
+        </and>
+    </condition>
+
     <property name="jflex.version" value="1.8.2"/>
     <property name="jamm.version" value="0.4.0"/>
     <property name="ecj.version" value="3.33.0"/>
@@ -959,28 +972,6 @@
       </checksum>
     </target>
 
-  <target name="build-jmh" depends="build-test, jar" description="Create JMH uber jar">
-      <jar jarfile="${build.test.dir}/deps.jar">
-          <zipgroupfileset dir="${test.lib}/jars">
-              <include name="*jmh*.jar"/>
-              <include name="jopt*.jar"/>
-              <include name="commons*.jar"/>
-              <include name="junit*.jar"/>
-              <include name="hamcrest*.jar"/>
-          </zipgroupfileset>
-          <zipgroupfileset dir="${build.lib}" includes="*.jar"/>
-      </jar>
-      <jar jarfile="${build.test.dir}/benchmarks.jar">
-          <manifest>
-              <attribute name="Main-Class" value="org.openjdk.jmh.Main"/>
-          </manifest>
-          <zipfileset src="${build.test.dir}/deps.jar" excludes="META-INF/*.SF" />
-          <fileset dir="${build.classes.main}"/>
-          <fileset dir="${test.classes}"/>
-          <fileset dir="${test.conf}" />
-      </jar>
-  </target>
-
   <!-- Wrapper of build-test without dependencies, so both that target and its dependencies are skipped if the property
     no-build-test is true. This is meant to be used to run tests without actually building them, provided that they have
     been built before. All test targets depend on this, so one can run them using the no-build-test property.
@@ -1040,18 +1031,40 @@
     </copy>
   </target>
 
+    <macrodef name="check-test-names">
+        <attribute name="annotationName"/>
+        <attribute name="regex"/>
+        <attribute name="scanClassPath" default="${test.classes}:${fqltool.test.classes}:${stress.test.classes}"/>
+        <attribute name="packageName" default="org.apache.cassandra"/>
+        <attribute name="expand" default="true"/>
+        <attribute name="normalize" default="true"/>
+        <attribute name="verbose" default="false"/>
+
+        <sequential>
+            <java taskname="check-test-names" fork="true" failonerror="yes" classname="org.apache.cassandra.anttasks.TestNameCheckTask">
+                <classpath>
+                    <path refid="cassandra.classpath.test"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${fqltool.build.classes}"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${stress.build.classes}"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${test.classes}"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${fqltool.test.classes}"/>
+                    <pathelement location="${stress.test.classes}"/>
+                </classpath>
+                <jvmarg line="${java-jvmargs}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-DscanClassPath=@{scanClassPath}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-DpackageName=@{packageName}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-DannotationName=@{annotationName}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-Dexpand=@{expand}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-Dnormalize=@{normalize}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-Dverbose=@{verbose}"/>
+                <jvmarg value="-Dregex=@{regex}"/>
+            </java>
+        </sequential>
+    </macrodef>
+
   <target name="_check-test-names">
-    <java taskname="check-test-names" fork="true" failonerror="yes" classname="org.apache.cassandra.anttasks.TestNameCheckTask" classpath="${test.classes}">
-      <classpath>
-        <path refid="cassandra.classpath" />
-        <pathelement location="${test.classes}"/>
-        <pathelement location="${fqltool.build.classes}" />
-        <fileset dir="${test.lib}">
-          <include name="**/*.jar" />
-        </fileset>
-      </classpath>
-      <jvmarg line="${java-jvmargs}"/>
-    </java>
+      <check-test-names annotationName="org.junit.Test" regex=".*Test$"/>
+      <check-test-names annotationName="org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Benchmark" regex=".*(Bench|_jmhType.*)$"/>
   </target>
 
   <!-- Run tests separately and report errors after and generate a junit report -->
@@ -1827,36 +1840,12 @@
       </concat>
   </target>
 
-  <!-- run microbenchmarks suite -->
-  <target name="microbench" depends="build-jmh">
-      <java classname="org.openjdk.jmh.Main"
-            fork="true"
-            failonerror="true">
-          <classpath>
-              <path refid="cassandra.classpath.test" />
-              <pathelement location="${test.classes}"/>
-              <pathelement location="${test.conf}"/>
-              <fileset dir="${test.lib}">
-                  <include name="**/*.jar" />
-              </fileset>
-          </classpath>
-          <arg value="-foe"/>
-          <arg value="true"/>
-          <arg value="-rf"/>
-          <arg value="json"/>
-          <arg value="-rff"/>
-          <arg value="${build.test.dir}/jmh-result.json"/>
-          <arg value="-v"/>
-          <arg value="EXTRA"/>
-          <jvmarg line="${java-jvmargs}"/>
-          <jvmarg line="${_std-test-jvmargs}"/>
-          <jvmarg line="${test.jvm.args}"/>
+  <target name="microbench" depends="jar">
+    <antcall target="-microbench" inheritrefs="true"/>
+  </target>
 
-          <!-- Broken: ZeroCopyStreamingBench,MutationBench,FastThreadLocalBench  (FIXME) -->
-          <arg value="-e"/><arg value="ZeroCopyStreamingBench|MutationBench|FastThreadLocalBench"/>
-
-          <arg value=".*microbench.*${benchmark.name}"/>
-      </java>
+  <target name="microbench-with-profiler" depends="jar">
+    <antcall target="-microbench-with-profiler" inheritrefs="true"/>
   </target>
 
   <!-- run arbitrary mains in tests, for example to run the long running memory tests with lots of memory pressure
@@ -2074,4 +2063,5 @@
   <import file="${build.helpers.dir}/build-git.xml"/>
   <import file="${build.helpers.dir}/build-checkstyle.xml"/>
   <import file="${build.helpers.dir}/build-cqlsh.xml"/>
+  <import file="${build.helpers.dir}/build-bench.xml"/>
 </project>
diff --git a/test/anttasks/org/apache/cassandra/anttasks/TestNameCheckTask.java b/test/anttasks/org/apache/cassandra/anttasks/TestNameCheckTask.java
index 0b16f5e440..29b2f767e3 100644
--- a/test/anttasks/org/apache/cassandra/anttasks/TestNameCheckTask.java
+++ b/test/anttasks/org/apache/cassandra/anttasks/TestNameCheckTask.java
@@ -17,74 +17,169 @@
  */
 package org.apache.cassandra.anttasks;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.function.Predicate;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.function.Consumers;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
 import org.reflections.Reflections;
 import org.reflections.scanners.Scanners;
 import org.reflections.util.ConfigurationBuilder;
 
 import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
 
-public class TestNameCheckTask extends Task
+public class TestNameCheckTask
 {
-    private static final Reflections reflections = new Reflections(new ConfigurationBuilder()
-                                                                   .forPackage("org.apache.cassandra")
-                                                                   .setScanners(Scanners.MethodsAnnotated, Scanners.SubTypes)
-                                                                   .setExpandSuperTypes(true)
-                                                                   .setParallel(true));
+    private String scanClassPath = "build/test/classes";
+    private String packageName = "org.apache.cassandra";
+    private String annotationName = Test.class.getName();
+    private boolean expand = true;
+    private boolean normalize = true;
+    private boolean verbose = false;
+    private String regex = ".*Test$";
 
     public TestNameCheckTask()
     {
     }
 
-    public static void main(String[] args)
+    public void setScanClassPath(String scanClassPath)
     {
-        new TestNameCheckTask().execute();
-    }
-    
-    @Override
-    public void execute() throws BuildException
-    {
-        Set<Method> methodsAnnotatedWith = reflections.getMethodsAnnotatedWith(Test.class);
-        List<String> testFiles = methodsAnnotatedWith.stream().map(Method::getDeclaringClass).distinct()
-                                                     .flatMap(TestNameCheckTask::expand)
-                                                     .map(TestNameCheckTask::normalize)
-                                                     .map(Class::getCanonicalName)
-                                                     .filter(s -> !s.endsWith("Test"))
-                                                     .distinct().sorted()
-                                                     .collect(toList());
-
-        if (!testFiles.isEmpty())
-            throw new BuildException("Detected tests that have a bad naming convention. All tests have to end on 'Test': \n" + String.join("\n", testFiles));
+        this.scanClassPath = scanClassPath;
     }
 
-    private static Class<?> normalize(Class<?> klass)
+    public void setPackageName(String packageName)
     {
-        for (; klass.getEnclosingClass() != null; klass = klass.getEnclosingClass())
+        this.packageName = packageName;
+    }
+
+    public void setAnnotationName(String annotationName)
+    {
+        this.annotationName = annotationName;
+    }
+
+    public void setExpand(boolean expand)
+    {
+        this.expand = expand;
+    }
+
+    public void setNormalize(boolean normalize)
+    {
+        this.normalize = normalize;
+    }
+
+    public void setVerbose(boolean verbose)
+    {
+        this.verbose = verbose;
+    }
+
+    public void setRegex(String regex)
+    {
+        this.regex = regex;
+    }
+
+    public void execute()
+    {
+        List<URL> scanClassPathUrls = Arrays.stream(scanClassPath.split(File.pathSeparator)).map(Paths::get).map(path -> {
+            try
+            {
+                return path.toUri().toURL();
+            }
+            catch (MalformedURLException e)
+            {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        }).collect(toList());
+
+        Reflections reflections = new Reflections(new ConfigurationBuilder()
+                                                  .forPackage(packageName)
+                                                  .setScanners(Scanners.MethodsAnnotated, Scanners.SubTypes)
+                                                  .setUrls(scanClassPathUrls)
+                                                  .setExpandSuperTypes(true)
+                                                  .setParallel(true));
+
+        Class<? extends Annotation> annotationClass;
+        try
         {
+            annotationClass = (Class<? extends Annotation>) Class.forName(annotationName);
         }
+        catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        Set<Method> methodsAnnotatedWith = reflections.getMethodsAnnotatedWith(annotationClass);
+        Stream<? extends Class<?>> stream = methodsAnnotatedWith.stream().map(Method::getDeclaringClass).distinct();
+
+        if (expand)
+            stream = stream.flatMap(c -> expand(c, reflections));
+        if (normalize)
+            stream = stream.map(this::normalize);
+
+        Predicate<String> patternPredicate = Predicate.not(Pattern.compile(regex).asMatchPredicate());
+        List<String> classes = stream.map(Class::getCanonicalName)
+                                     .distinct()
+                                     .sorted()
+                                     .peek(verbose ? System.out::println : Consumers.nop())
+                                     .filter(patternPredicate)
+                                     .collect(toList());
+
+        if (!classes.isEmpty())
+            throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Detected classes that have a bad naming convention. All classes from the following locations %s which have methods annotated with %s should have names that match %s: \n%s", scanClassPath, annotationName, regex, String.join("\n", classes)));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get top outer class if it is an inner class
+     */
+    private Class<?> normalize(Class<?> klass)
+    {
+        while (klass.getEnclosingClass() != null)
+            klass = klass.getEnclosingClass();
+
         return klass;
     }
 
-    private static Stream<Class<?>> expand(Class<?> klass)
+    /**
+     * Expand a class to all its subtypes. We need this because it possible that there is a top level class with
+     * annotated test methods and there are subclasses which modifies some configuration but do not introduce
+     * any additional test methods. In such case, those subclasses would not be included in the result of
+     * {@link Reflections#getMethodsAnnotatedWith(Class)}.
+     */
+    private Stream<? extends Class<?>> expand(Class<?> klass, Reflections reflections)
     {
         Set<? extends Class<?>> subTypes = reflections.getSubTypesOf(klass);
         if (subTypes == null || subTypes.isEmpty())
             return Stream.of(klass);
-        Stream<Class<?>> subs = (Stream<Class<?>>) subTypes.stream();
+        Stream<? extends Class<?>> subs = subTypes.stream();
         // assume we include if not abstract
         if (!Modifier.isAbstract(klass.getModifiers()))
             subs = Stream.concat(Stream.of(klass), subs);
         return subs;
     }
 
+    public static void main(String[] args)
+    {
+        TestNameCheckTask check = new TestNameCheckTask();
+        // checkstyle: suppress below 'blockSystemPropertyUsage'
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("scanClassPath")).ifPresent(check::setScanClassPath);
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("packageName")).ifPresent(check::setPackageName);
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("annotationName")).ifPresent(check::setAnnotationName);
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("regex")).ifPresent(check::setRegex);
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("expand")).map(Boolean::parseBoolean).ifPresent(check::setExpand);
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("normalize")).map(Boolean::parseBoolean).ifPresent(check::setNormalize);
+        Optional.ofNullable(System.getProperty("verbose")).map(Boolean::parseBoolean).ifPresent(check::setVerbose);
+        check.execute();
+    }
 
 }
diff --git a/test/bin/jmh b/test/bin/jmh
index c56145f81d..ad8f44bd3c 100755
--- a/test/bin/jmh
+++ b/test/bin/jmh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 jvmoptions_variant="-server"
-export CASSANDRA_HOME=`dirname "$0"`/../../
+export CASSANDRA_HOME="$(cd $(dirname "$0")/../../; pwd)"
 . $CASSANDRA_HOME/bin/cassandra.in.sh
 
 # Use JAVA_HOME if set, otherwise look for java in PATH
@@ -127,11 +127,15 @@ cassandra_parms="$cassandra_parms -XX:+PreserveFramePointer"
 # Create log directory, some tests require that
 mkdir -p $CASSANDRA_HOME/logs
 
-if [ ! -f $CASSANDRA_HOME/build/test/benchmarks.jar ] ; then
-    echo "$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/test/benchmarks.jar does not exist - execute 'ant build-jmh'"
+if [ ! -f $CASSANDRA_HOME/build/apache-cassandra-*.jar ] ; then
+    echo "$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/apache-cassandra-*.jar does not exist - execute 'ant jar' first"
     exit 1
 fi
 
-exec $NUMACTL "$JAVA" -cp "$CLASSPATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/test/benchmarks.jar:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/test/deps.jar" org.openjdk.jmh.Main -jvmArgs="$cassandra_parms $JVM_OPTS" $@
+CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/test/conf/"
+CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/test/classes/"
+CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/test/lib/jars/*"
+
+exec $NUMACTL "$JAVA" -cp "$CLASSPATH" org.openjdk.jmh.Main -jvmArgs="$cassandra_parms $JVM_OPTS" "$@"
 
 # vi:ai sw=4 ts=4 tw=0 et
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ReadWriteTest.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ReadWriteBench.java
similarity index 98%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ReadWriteTest.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ReadWriteBench.java
index 066c2894f9..06d7c77e1a 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ReadWriteTest.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ReadWriteBench.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.*;
 @Fork(value = 1)
 @Threads(1)
 @State(Scope.Benchmark)
-public class ReadWriteTest extends CQLTester
+public class ReadWriteBench extends CQLTester
 {
     static String keyspace;
     String table;
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/Sample.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/SampleBench.java
similarity index 99%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/Sample.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/SampleBench.java
index a878a401d6..59763646e6 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/Sample.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/SampleBench.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 @Fork(value = 1, jvmArgsAppend = "-Xmx512M")
 @Threads(1)
 @State(Scope.Benchmark)
-public class Sample
+public class SampleBench
 {
     @Param({"65536"})
     private int pageSize;
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ZeroCopyStreamingBenchmark.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ZeroCopyStreamingBench.java
similarity index 99%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ZeroCopyStreamingBenchmark.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ZeroCopyStreamingBench.java
index c43648a3d1..7b2bc3afaa 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ZeroCopyStreamingBenchmark.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/ZeroCopyStreamingBench.java
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ import static org.apache.cassandra.utils.TimeUUID.Generator.nextTimeUUID;
 @Measurement(iterations = 10, time = 1, timeUnit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
 @Fork(value = 1)
 @Threads(1)
-public class ZeroCopyStreamingBenchmark
+public class ZeroCopyStreamingBench
 {
     static final int STREAM_SIZE = 50 * 1024 * 1024;
 
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTest.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadBenchBase.java
similarity index 99%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTest.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadBenchBase.java
index 5a86842d5c..3e2d64fcd4 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTest.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadBenchBase.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.*;
 
 @State(Scope.Benchmark)
-public abstract class ReadTest extends SimpleTableWriter
+public abstract class ReadBenchBase extends SimpleTableWriter
 {
     public enum Flush
     {
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTestSmallPartitions.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadSmallPartitionsBench.java
similarity index 97%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTestSmallPartitions.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadSmallPartitionsBench.java
index c665c5947e..5958b7c50a 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTestSmallPartitions.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadSmallPartitionsBench.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Warmup;
 @Fork(value = 1)
 @Threads(1)
 @State(Scope.Benchmark)
-public class ReadTestSmallPartitions extends ReadTest
+public class ReadSmallPartitionsBench extends ReadBenchBase
 {
     String readStatement()
     {
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTestWidePartitions.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadWidePartitionsBench.java
similarity index 98%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTestWidePartitions.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadWidePartitionsBench.java
index c36e09fb7a..bc46493e79 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadTestWidePartitions.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/ReadWidePartitionsBench.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ package org.apache.cassandra.test.microbench.instance;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Benchmark;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Param;
 
-public class ReadTestWidePartitions extends ReadTest
+public class ReadWidePartitionsBench extends ReadBenchBase
 {
     @Param({"1000", "4"}) // wide and very wide partitions
     int partitions = 4;
diff --git a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/WriteTest.java b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/WriteBench.java
similarity index 95%
rename from test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/WriteTest.java
rename to test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/WriteBench.java
index eda93b755d..6738955475 100644
--- a/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/WriteTest.java
+++ b/test/microbench/org/apache/cassandra/test/microbench/instance/WriteBench.java
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.*;
 @Fork(value = 1)
 @Threads(1)
 @State(Scope.Benchmark)
-public class WriteTest extends SimpleTableWriter
+public class WriteBench extends SimpleTableWriter
 {
 
     public enum EndOp
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public class WriteTest extends SimpleTableWriter
 
     void doExtraChecks()
     {
-        if (flush == WriteTest.EndOp.INMEM && !cfs.getLiveSSTables().isEmpty())
+        if (flush == WriteBench.EndOp.INMEM && !cfs.getLiveSSTables().isEmpty())
             throw new AssertionError("SSTables created for INMEM test.");
     }