diff --git a/evals/gemma_batch_bench.cc b/evals/gemma_batch_bench.cc
index 135c2bb..3ffa858 100644
--- a/evals/gemma_batch_bench.cc
+++ b/evals/gemma_batch_bench.cc
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ TEST_F(GemmaBatchBench, RandomQuestionsBatched) {
     fprintf(stderr, "Batch answer %zu '%s'\n\n", i, responses[i].c_str());
   }
 
+  // Run again: prefill will be faster due to autotuning. Fewer decode steps
+  // because those are already fast.
+  s_env->SetMaxGeneratedTokens(3);
+  responses = BatchGemmaReply(inputs);
+
   PROFILER_PRINT_RESULTS();
 }
 }  // namespace
diff --git a/gemma/activations.h b/gemma/activations.h
index 9460d15..f474c84 100644
--- a/gemma/activations.h
+++ b/gemma/activations.h
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ struct AttentionActivations {
 
   void SetBatchSize(size_t batch_size) {
     q.OverrideRows(batch_size);
-    q_T.OverrideRows(batch_size);
+    // q_T rows are always qkv_dim!
 
     pre_att_rms_out.OverrideRows(batch_size);
     att.OverrideRows(batch_size);
diff --git a/util/mat.h b/util/mat.h
index 4360b69..c2427e5 100644
--- a/util/mat.h
+++ b/util/mat.h
@@ -186,7 +186,10 @@ class MatPtr : public IFields {
   // will return this value. Used to set the actual number of rows for
   // activations preallocated according to the batch size.
   void OverrideRows(size_t rows) {
-    HWY_ASSERT(rows <= private_rows_);
+    if (HWY_UNLIKELY(rows > private_rows_)) {
+      HWY_ABORT("%s: rows %zu > private_rows_ %u\n", name_.c_str(), rows,
+                private_rows_);
+    }
     override_rows_ = static_cast<uint32_t>(rows);
   }