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diff --git a/block/Kconfig.iosched b/block/Kconfig.iosched
index af3d6a330982..86e3e39fd2e0 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig.iosched
+++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched
@@ -50,6 +50,27 @@ config CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
---help---
Enable group IO scheduling in CFQ.
+config IOSCHED_BFQ
+ tristate "BFQ I/O scheduler"
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ The BFQ I/O scheduler tries to distribute bandwidth among
+ all processes according to their weights.
+ It aims at distributing the bandwidth as desired, independently of
+ the disk parameters and with any workload. It also tries to
+ guarantee low latency to interactive and soft real-time
+ applications. If compiled built-in (saying Y here), BFQ can
+ be configured to support hierarchical scheduling.
+
+config CGROUP_BFQIO
+ bool "BFQ hierarchical scheduling support"
+ depends on CGROUPS && IOSCHED_BFQ=y
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Enable hierarchical scheduling in BFQ, using the cgroups
+ filesystem interface. The name of the subsystem will be
+ bfqio.
+
choice
prompt "Default I/O scheduler"
default DEFAULT_CFQ
@@ -63,6 +84,16 @@ choice
config DEFAULT_CFQ
bool "CFQ" if IOSCHED_CFQ=y
+ config DEFAULT_BFQ
+ bool "BFQ" if IOSCHED_BFQ=y
+ help
+ Selects BFQ as the default I/O scheduler which will be
+ used by default for all block devices.
+ The BFQ I/O scheduler aims at distributing the bandwidth
+ as desired, independently of the disk parameters and with
+ any workload. It also tries to guarantee low latency to
+ interactive and soft real-time applications.
+
config DEFAULT_NOOP
bool "No-op"
@@ -72,6 +103,7 @@ config DEFAULT_IOSCHED
string
default "deadline" if DEFAULT_DEADLINE
default "cfq" if DEFAULT_CFQ
+ default "bfq" if DEFAULT_BFQ
default "noop" if DEFAULT_NOOP
endmenu