diff --git a/block/io_uring.c b/block/io_uring.c
index 0b401512b9..d48e472e74 100644
--- a/block/io_uring.c
+++ b/block/io_uring.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "trace.h"
 
+
 /* io_uring ring size */
 #define MAX_ENTRIES 128
 
@@ -434,8 +435,17 @@ LuringState *luring_init(Error **errp)
     }
 
     ioq_init(&s->io_q);
-    return s;
+#ifdef CONFIG_LIBURING_REGISTER_RING_FD
+    if (io_uring_register_ring_fd(&s->ring) < 0) {
+        /*
+         * Only warn about this error: we will fallback to the non-optimized
+         * io_uring operations.
+         */
+        warn_report("failed to register linux io_uring ring file descriptor");
+    }
+#endif
 
+    return s;
 }
 
 void luring_cleanup(LuringState *s)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 0c2e11ff07..9e65cc5367 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1752,6 +1752,7 @@ config_host_data.set('CONFIG_LIBNFS', libnfs.found())
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_LIBSSH', libssh.found())
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_LINUX_AIO', libaio.found())
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_LINUX_IO_URING', linux_io_uring.found())
+config_host_data.set('CONFIG_LIBURING_REGISTER_RING_FD', cc.has_function('io_uring_register_ring_fd', prefix: '#include <liburing.h>', dependencies:linux_io_uring))
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_LIBPMEM', libpmem.found())
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_NUMA', numa.found())
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_OPENGL', opengl.found())