- Fix: initial delay in mounting azure disk & file ([#93052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93052), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed a performance issue applying json patches to deeply nested objects ([#93813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93813), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider and Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubectl create service now respects namespace flag ([#101005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101005), [@zxh326](https://github.com/zxh326)) [SIG CLI]
- Kubelet: improve the performance when waiting for a synchronization of the node list with the kube-apiserver ([#99336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99336), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Node]

- The SchedulerAsyncAPICalls feature gate has been disabled to mitigate a bug where its interaction with asynchronous preemption in could degrade kube-scheduler performance, particularly under high kube-apiserver load. ([#134401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134401), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))
* Update to go 1.12.10 ([#83139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83139), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))

- Kubelet: improve the performance when waiting for a synchronization of the node list with the kube-apiserver ([#99336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99336), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Node]

		// We save a lot of calls over the network.
		//
		// This happens repeatedly for all objects that are created concurrently() avoiding this
		// as a List() call is an important performance improvement.
		//
		// Spark based s3a committers are a  big enough use-case to have this optimization.
		//
		// A sample code to see the improvements is as follows, this sample code is

### API Change

- Kubernetes 1.23 is now built with go1.19.4. To match behavior of previous Kubernetes 1.23 patch releases:
  - `kube-apiserver` defaults the GOGC setting to 63, to approximate go1.17 garbage collection memory performance in heavily loaded API servers

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))

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        return listFiles("*", ATTR_DIRECTORY | ATTR_HIDDEN | ATTR_SYSTEM, null, null);
    }

    /**
     * The CIFS protocol provides for DOS "wildcards" to be used as
     * a performance enhancement. The client does not have to filter
     * the names and the server does not have to return all directory
     * entries.
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     * The wildcard expression may consist of two special meta