diff --git a/src/runtime/config/configuration-clh.toml.in b/src/runtime/config/configuration-clh.toml.in
index e3c584a53c..f2eca9b3d8 100644
--- a/src/runtime/config/configuration-clh.toml.in
+++ b/src/runtime/config/configuration-clh.toml.in
@@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ virtio_fs_cache = "@DEFVIRTIOFSCACHE@"
 # rootfs is backed by a block device. This is virtio-blk.
 block_device_driver = "virtio-blk"
 
+# Specifies cache-related options will be set to block devices or not.
+# Default false
+#block_device_cache_set = true
+
+# Specifies cache-related options for block devices.
+# Denotes whether use of O_DIRECT (bypass the host page cache) is enabled.
+# Default false
+#block_device_cache_direct = true
+
 # Enable huge pages for VM RAM, default false
 # Enabling this will result in the VM memory
 # being allocated using huge pages.
diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/katautils/config.go b/src/runtime/pkg/katautils/config.go
index 0e280de0e9..9dc0ff57c0 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/katautils/config.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/katautils/config.go
@@ -1082,7 +1082,6 @@ func newClhHypervisorConfig(h hypervisor) (vc.HypervisorConfig, error) {
 		BlockDeviceDriver:              blockDriver,
 		BlockDeviceCacheSet:            h.BlockDeviceCacheSet,
 		BlockDeviceCacheDirect:         h.BlockDeviceCacheDirect,
-		BlockDeviceCacheNoflush:        h.BlockDeviceCacheNoflush,
 		EnableIOThreads:                h.EnableIOThreads,
 		Msize9p:                        h.msize9p(),
 		ColdPlugVFIO:                   h.coldPlugVFIO(),
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/clh.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/clh.go
index b8e3abe89c..9ce491f00b 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/clh.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/clh.go
@@ -851,6 +851,9 @@ func (clh *cloudHypervisor) hotplugAddBlockDevice(drive *config.BlockDrive) erro
 	clhDisk := *chclient.NewDiskConfig(drive.File)
 	clhDisk.Readonly = &drive.ReadOnly
 	clhDisk.VhostUser = func(b bool) *bool { return &b }(false)
+	if clh.config.BlockDeviceCacheSet {
+		clhDisk.Direct = &clh.config.BlockDeviceCacheDirect
+	}
 
 	queues := int32(clh.config.NumVCPUs)
 	queueSize := int32(1024)