diff --git a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp
index a987567..e293fa2 100644
--- a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp
+++ b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel.cpp
@@ -246,6 +246,13 @@
                                                          const PadStrideInfo &conv_info, unsigned int depth_multiplier, ActivationLayerInfo act_info, const Size2D &dilation,
                                                          const ICLTensor *output_multipliers, const ICLTensor *output_shifts)
 {
+    configure(CLKernelLibrary::get().get_compile_context(), input, weights, biases, output, conv_info, depth_multiplier, act_info, dilation, output_multipliers, output_shifts);
+}
+
+void CLDepthwiseConvolutionLayer3x3NCHWKernel::configure(CLCompileContext &compile_context, const ICLTensor *input, const ICLTensor *weights, const ICLTensor *biases, ICLTensor *output,
+                                                         const PadStrideInfo &conv_info, unsigned int depth_multiplier, ActivationLayerInfo act_info, const Size2D &dilation,
+                                                         const ICLTensor *output_multipliers, const ICLTensor *output_shifts)
+{
     ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_ON_NULLPTR(input, weights, output);
     ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_THROW_ON(validate_arguments(input->info(), weights->info(), (biases != nullptr) ? biases->info() : nullptr, output->info(),
                                                   conv_info, depth_multiplier, act_info, dilation,
@@ -337,7 +344,7 @@
     build_opts.add_option_if(input->info()->data_type() == DataType::F16, "-DIS_F16");
     build_opts.add_option_if(input->info()->data_type() == DataType::F32, "-DIS_F32");
 
-    _kernel = static_cast<cl::Kernel>(CLKernelLibrary::get().create_kernel(kernel_name, build_opts.options()));
+    _kernel = create_kernel(compile_context, kernel_name, build_opts.options());
 
     // Set config_id for enabling LWS tuning
     _config_id = kernel_name;