diff --git a/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/default.rs b/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/default.rs
index 596cbf1afc..8fcd77e1c0 100644
--- a/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/default.rs
+++ b/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/default.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ pub const DEFAULT_INTERNETWORKING_MODEL: &str = "tcfilter";
 pub const DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_TYPE: &str = "virtio-blk-pci";
 pub const DEFAULT_VHOST_USER_STORE_PATH: &str = "/var/run/vhost-user";
 pub const DEFAULT_BLOCK_NVDIMM_MEM_OFFSET: u64 = 0;
+pub const DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO_THREADS: &str = "threads";
+pub const DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO_NATIVE: &str = "native";
+pub const DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO: &str = "io_uring";
 
 pub const DEFAULT_SHARED_FS_TYPE: &str = "virtio-fs";
 pub const DEFAULT_VIRTIO_FS_CACHE_MODE: &str = "never";
diff --git a/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs b/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs
index 09b0f150cc..83ea1f2eed 100644
--- a/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs
@@ -107,6 +107,21 @@ pub struct BlockDeviceInfo {
     #[serde(default)]
     pub block_device_driver: String,
 
+    /// Block device AIO is the I/O mechanism specially for Qemu
+    /// Options:
+    ///
+    ///   - threads
+    ///     Pthread based disk I/O.
+    ///
+    ///   - native
+    ///     Native Linux I/O.
+    ///
+    ///   - io_uring
+    ///     Linux io_uring API. This provides the fastest I/O operations on Linux, requires kernel > 5.1 and
+    ///     qemu >= 5.0.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub block_device_aio: String,
+
     /// Specifies cache-related options will be set to block devices or not.
     #[serde(default)]
     pub block_device_cache_set: bool,
@@ -168,6 +183,21 @@ impl BlockDeviceInfo {
         if self.block_device_driver.is_empty() {
             self.block_device_driver = default::DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_TYPE.to_string();
         }
+        if self.block_device_aio.is_empty() {
+            self.block_device_aio = default::DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO.to_string();
+        } else {
+            const VALID_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO: &[&str] = &[
+                default::DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO,
+                default::DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO_NATIVE,
+                default::DEFAULT_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO_THREADS,
+            ];
+            if !VALID_BLOCK_DEVICE_AIO.contains(&self.block_device_aio.as_str()) {
+                return Err(eother!(
+                    "{} is unsupported block device AIO mode.",
+                    self.block_device_aio
+                ));
+            }
+        }
         if self.memory_offset == 0 {
             self.memory_offset = default::DEFAULT_BLOCK_NVDIMM_MEM_OFFSET;
         }