diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 1cc4fa6bc7fe1fe66163f1298c67866f4de43dd2..4884f1e7451bf98402a556d02216aa75f658dbbc 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -814,9 +814,9 @@ static noinline_for_stack bool submit_bio_checks(struct bio *bio)
 
 	/*
 	 * For a REQ_NOWAIT based request, return -EOPNOTSUPP
-	 * if queue is not a request based queue.
+	 * if queue does not support NOWAIT.
 	 */
-	if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) && !queue_is_mq(q))
+	if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) && !blk_queue_nowait(q))
 		goto not_supported;
 
 	if (should_fail_bio(bio))
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 33f283885ba5f4fd01c598cadf39b25b18f2fee2..d5a3e1a4c2f79b3262901c13dcfd840a21343dfc 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -619,10 +619,12 @@ struct request_queue {
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_PCI_P2PDMA	25	/* device supports PCI p2p requests */
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_ZONE_RESETALL 26	/* supports Zone Reset All */
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_RQ_ALLOC_TIME 27	/* record rq->alloc_time_ns */
-#define QUEUE_FLAG_HCTX_ACTIVE 28	/* at least one blk-mq hctx is active */
+#define QUEUE_FLAG_HCTX_ACTIVE	28	/* at least one blk-mq hctx is active */
+#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT       29	/* device supports NOWAIT */
 
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT	((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) |		\
-				 (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP))
+				 (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP) |		\
+				 (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT))
 
 void blk_queue_flag_set(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q);
 void blk_queue_flag_clear(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q);
@@ -664,6 +666,7 @@ bool blk_queue_flag_test_and_set(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q);
 #define blk_queue_pm_only(q)	atomic_read(&(q)->pm_only)
 #define blk_queue_fua(q)	test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_FUA, &(q)->queue_flags)
 #define blk_queue_registered(q)	test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED, &(q)->queue_flags)
+#define blk_queue_nowait(q)	test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, &(q)->queue_flags)
 
 extern void blk_set_pm_only(struct request_queue *q);
 extern void blk_clear_pm_only(struct request_queue *q);