diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 6a56239c3a..f4568f4984 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ Kai Ji <kai.ji@intel.com>
 Kaiwen Deng <kaiwenx.deng@intel.com>
 Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
 Kamalakannan R <kamalakannan.r@intel.com>
+Kamalakshitha Aligeri <kamalakshitha.aligeri@arm.com>
 Kamil Bednarczyk <kamil.bednarczyk@intel.com>
 Kamil Chalupnik <kamilx.chalupnik@intel.com>
 Kamil Rytarowski <kamil.rytarowski@caviumnetworks.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c
index 2e8a3f0df6..2ad9a920a1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c
@@ -906,16 +906,13 @@ i40e_tx_free_bufs_avx512(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
 		struct rte_mempool_cache *cache = rte_mempool_default_cache(mp,
 				rte_lcore_id());
 
-		if (!cache || cache->len == 0)
-			goto normal;
-
-		cache_objs = &cache->objs[cache->len];
-
-		if (n > RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE) {
-			rte_mempool_ops_enqueue_bulk(mp, (void *)txep, n);
+		if (!cache || n > RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE) {
+			rte_mempool_generic_put(mp, (void *)txep, n, cache);
 			goto done;
 		}
 
+		cache_objs = &cache->objs[cache->len];
+
 		/* The cache follows the following algorithm
 		 *   1. Add the objects to the cache
 		 *   2. Anything greater than the cache min value (if it
@@ -947,7 +944,6 @@ i40e_tx_free_bufs_avx512(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
 		goto done;
 	}
 
-normal:
 	m = rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg(txep[0].mbuf);
 	if (likely(m)) {
 		free[0] = m;