diff --git a/dpbench/benchmarks/default/knn/knn_sycl_native_ext/knn_sycl/_knn_kernel.hpp b/dpbench/benchmarks/default/knn/knn_sycl_native_ext/knn_sycl/_knn_kernel.hpp
index 75cccd3b..59a22b6d 100644
--- a/dpbench/benchmarks/default/knn/knn_sycl_native_ext/knn_sycl/_knn_kernel.hpp
+++ b/dpbench/benchmarks/default/knn/knn_sycl_native_ext/knn_sycl/_knn_kernel.hpp
@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ sycl::event knn_impl(sycl::queue q,
 
                 // simple vote
                 for (size_t j = 0; j < k; ++j) {
-		  d_votes_to_classes[(i*classes_num) + (queue_neighbors[j].label)] += 1;
+		  size_t ith_idx = i * classes_num;
+		  //size_t jth = queue_neighbors[j].label;
+		  //d_votes_to_classes[(i*classes_num) + (queue_neighbors[j].label)] += 1;
                 }
 
                 IntTy max_ind = 0;