diff --git a/block/Kconfig.iosched b/block/Kconfig.iosched
index 421bef9c4..0ee5f0f78 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig.iosched
+++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched
@@ -39,6 +39,27 @@ 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
@@ -52,6 +73,16 @@ 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"
 
@@ -61,6 +92,7 @@ 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
diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile
index 00ecc9762..1ed86d58f 100644
--- a/block/Makefile
+++ b/block/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING)	+= blk-throttle.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP)	+= noop-iosched.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE)	+= deadline-iosched.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ)	+= cfq-iosched.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_BFQ)	+= bfq-iosched.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK_COMPAT)	+= compat_ioctl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER)	+= cmdline-parser.o
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 2e99f4e26..23df8b7fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct pr_ops;
  * Maximum number of blkcg policies allowed to be registered concurrently.
  * Defined here to simplify include dependency.
  */
-#define BLKCG_MAX_POLS		2
+#define BLKCG_MAX_POLS		3
 
 struct request;
 typedef void (rq_end_io_fn)(struct request *, int);