diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/p/pytorch.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/p/pytorch.py
index 862afbf61de..7bb1b7a313b 100755
--- a/easybuild/easyblocks/p/pytorch.py
+++ b/easybuild/easyblocks/p/pytorch.py
@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ def add_enable_option(name, enabled):
         elif pytorch_version >= '1.9.0' and get_software_root('BLIS'):
             options.append('BLAS=BLIS')
             options.append('BLIS_HOME=' + get_software_root('BLIS'))
+            options.append('USE_MKLDNN=ON')
             options.append('USE_MKLDNN_CBLAS=ON')
         elif get_software_root('OpenBLAS'):
             # This is what PyTorch defaults to if no MKL is found.
@@ -463,6 +464,13 @@ def add_enable_option(name, enabled):
         else:
             raise EasyBuildError("Did not find a supported BLAS in dependencies. Don't know which BLAS lib to use")
 
+        if pytorch_version >= '1.10':
+            acl_root = get_software_root('ArmComputeLibrary')
+            if acl_root:
+                options.append('USE_MKLDNN=ON')
+                options.append('USE_MKLDNN_ACL=ON')
+                env.setvar('ACL_ROOT_DIR', acl_root)
+
         available_dependency_options = EB_PyTorch.get_dependency_options_for_version(self.version)
         dependency_names = self.cfg.dependency_names()
         not_used_dep_names = []
@@ -534,7 +542,7 @@ def add_enable_option(name, enabled):
 
         build_type = self.cfg.get('build_type')
         if build_type is None:
-            build_type = 'Debug' if self.toolchain.options.get('debug', None) else 'Release'
+            build_type = 'Debug' if self.toolchain.options.get('debug') else 'Release'
         else:
             for name in ('prebuildopts', 'preinstallopts', 'custom_opts'):
                 if '-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=' in self.cfg[name]:
@@ -551,7 +559,7 @@ def add_enable_option(name, enabled):
 
         unique_options = self.cfg['custom_opts']
         for option in options:
-            name = option.split('=')[0] + '='  # Include the equals sign to avoid partial matches
+            name = option.split('=', maxsplit=1)[0] + '='  # Include the equals sign to avoid partial matches
             if not any(opt.startswith(name) for opt in unique_options):
                 unique_options.append(option)
 
@@ -627,6 +635,7 @@ def test_step(self):
         env.setvar('SANDCASTLE', '1')
         # Skip this test(s) which is very flaky
         env.setvar('SKIP_TEST_BOTTLENECK', '1')
+        env.setvar('MAX_JOBS', str(self.cfg.parallel))
         if self.has_xml_test_reports:
             env.setvar(self.GENERATE_TEST_REPORT_VAR_NAME, '1')
         # Parse excluded_tests and flatten into space separated string