diff --git a/tests/ansible/bench/loop-100-items.yml b/tests/ansible/bench/loop-100-items.yml
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+# Execute 'hostname' 100 times in a loop. Loops execute within TaskExecutor
+# within a single WorkerProcess, each iteration is a fair approximation of the
+# non-controller overhead involved in executing a task.
+#
+# See also: loop-100-tasks.yml
+#
+- hosts: all
+  tasks:
+    - command: hostname
+      with_sequence: start=1 end=100
diff --git a/tests/ansible/bench/loop-100-tasks.yml b/tests/ansible/bench/loop-100-tasks.yml
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+# Execute 'hostname' 100 times, using 100 individual tasks. Each task causes a
+# new WorkerProcess to be forked, along with get_vars() calculation, and in the
+# Mitogen extension, reestablishment of the UNIX socket connectionto the
+# multiplexer process.
+#
+# It does not measure at least module dependency scanning (cached after first
+# iteration).
+#
+# See also: loop-100-items.yml
+#
+- hosts: all
+  tasks:
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname
+    - command: hostname