diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4878646c7..c2697e040 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -217,10 +217,7 @@ smoke-bench:
     DASHBOARD_SORT_INDEX: 5
     DASHBOARD_JOB_CATEGORY: "Performance"
     SPIKE_TANDEM: 1
-  parallel:
-    matrix:
-      - BENCH: "dhrystone"
-        DV_HWCONFIG_OPTS: ["cv32a65x IcacheByteSize=32768 IcacheSetAssoc=8 DcacheByteSize=32768 DcacheSetAssoc=8"]
+    BENCH: "dhrystone"
   script:
     - bash verif/regress/"$BENCH"_smoke.sh --no-print
     - python3 .gitlab-ci/scripts/report_benchmark.py --"$BENCH"_cv32a65x verif/sim/out_*/vcs-uvm_sim/"$BENCH"_main.*.log
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/scripts/report_benchmark.py b/.gitlab-ci/scripts/report_benchmark.py
index 7a51feaf0..1dcb8bd4e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/scripts/report_benchmark.py
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/scripts/report_benchmark.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ valid_cycles = {
     "dhrystone_single": 25684,
     "coremark_dual": 1025897,
     "coremark_single": 1310721,
-    "dhrystone_cv32a65x": 33736,
+    "dhrystone_cv32a65x": 33867,
 }
 
 for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
diff --git a/verif/regress/dhrystone_smoke.sh b/verif/regress/dhrystone_smoke.sh
index 9d527204a..071267c28 100644
--- a/verif/regress/dhrystone_smoke.sh
+++ b/verif/regress/dhrystone_smoke.sh
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ if ! [ -n "$DV_SIMULATORS" ]; then
   DV_SIMULATORS=vcs-uvm
 fi
 
-if ! [ -n "$DV_HWCONFIG_OPTS" ]; then
-  DV_HWCONFIG_OPTS="cv32a65x"
-fi
-
 make clean
 make -C verif/sim clean_all
 
@@ -58,8 +54,7 @@ cflags=(
 )
 
 python3 cva6.py \
-        --target hwconfig \
-        --hwconfig_opts="$DV_HWCONFIG_OPTS" \
+        --target cv32a65x \
         --iss="$DV_SIMULATORS" \
         --iss_yaml=cva6.yaml \
         --c_tests "$src0" \