diff --git a/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_evdev.h b/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_evdev.h
index 783c418bf1..f6f8f04544 100644
--- a/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_evdev.h
+++ b/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_evdev.h
@@ -93,6 +93,17 @@
  */
 #define DSW_CTL_IN_RING_SIZE ((DSW_MAX_PORTS-1)*4)
 
+/* With DSW_SORT_DEQUEUED enabled, the scheduler will, at the point of
+ * dequeue(), arrange events so that events with the same flow id on
+ * the same queue forms a back-to-back "burst", and also so that such
+ * bursts of different flow ids, but on the same queue, also come
+ * consecutively. All this in an attempt to improve data and
+ * instruction cache usage for the application, at the cost of a
+ * scheduler overhead increase.
+ */
+
+/* #define DSW_SORT_DEQUEUED */
+
 struct dsw_queue_flow {
 	uint8_t queue_id;
 	uint16_t flow_hash;
diff --git a/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_event.c b/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_event.c
index f0347592d8..a84b19c337 100644
--- a/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_event.c
+++ b/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_event.c
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 #include "dsw_evdev.h"
 
+#ifdef DSW_SORT_DEQUEUED
+#include "dsw_sort.h"
+#endif
+
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
@@ -1121,6 +1125,21 @@ dsw_port_record_seen_events(struct dsw_port *port, struct rte_event *events,
 				DSW_MAX_EVENTS_RECORDED);
 }
 
+#ifdef DSW_SORT_DEQUEUED
+
+#define DSW_EVENT_TO_INT(_event)				\
+	((int)((((_event)->queue_id)<<16)|((_event)->flow_id)))
+
+static inline int
+dsw_cmp_event(const void *v_event_a, const void *v_event_b)
+{
+	const struct rte_event *event_a = v_event_a;
+	const struct rte_event *event_b = v_event_b;
+
+	return DSW_EVENT_TO_INT(event_a) - DSW_EVENT_TO_INT(event_b);
+}
+#endif
+
 static uint16_t
 dsw_port_dequeue_burst(struct dsw_port *port, struct rte_event *events,
 		       uint16_t num)
@@ -1191,5 +1210,9 @@ dsw_event_dequeue_burst(void *port, struct rte_event *events, uint16_t num,
 	 *	0.
 	 */
 
+#ifdef DSW_SORT_DEQUEUED
+	dsw_stable_sort(events, dequeued, sizeof(events[0]), dsw_cmp_event);
+#endif
+
 	return dequeued;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_sort.h b/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_sort.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..609767fdf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/event/dsw/dsw_sort.h
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ * Copyright(c) 2018 Ericsson AB
+ */
+
+#ifndef _DSW_SORT_
+#define _DSW_SORT_
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include <rte_common.h>
+
+#define DSW_ARY_ELEM_PTR(_ary, _idx, _elem_size)	\
+	RTE_PTR_ADD(_ary, (_idx) * (_elem_size))
+
+#define DSW_ARY_ELEM_SWAP(_ary, _a_idx, _b_idx, _elem_size)		\
+	do {								\
+		char tmp[_elem_size];					\
+		void *_a_ptr = DSW_ARY_ELEM_PTR(_ary, _a_idx, _elem_size); \
+		void *_b_ptr = DSW_ARY_ELEM_PTR(_ary, _b_idx, _elem_size); \
+		memcpy(tmp, _a_ptr, _elem_size);			\
+		memcpy(_a_ptr, _b_ptr, _elem_size);			\
+		memcpy(_b_ptr, tmp, _elem_size);			\
+	} while (0)
+
+static inline void
+dsw_insertion_sort(void *ary, uint16_t len, uint16_t elem_size,
+		   int (*cmp_fn)(const void *, const void *))
+{
+	uint16_t i;
+
+	for (i = 1; i < len; i++) {
+		uint16_t j;
+		for (j = i; j > 0 &&
+			     cmp_fn(DSW_ARY_ELEM_PTR(ary, j-1, elem_size),
+				    DSW_ARY_ELEM_PTR(ary, j, elem_size)) > 0;
+		     j--)
+			DSW_ARY_ELEM_SWAP(ary, j, j-1, elem_size);
+	}
+}
+
+static inline void
+dsw_stable_sort(void *ary, uint16_t len, uint16_t elem_size,
+		int (*cmp_fn)(const void *, const void *))
+{
+	dsw_insertion_sort(ary, len, elem_size, cmp_fn);
+}
+
+#endif