diff --git a/lib/bdev/nvme/bdev_nvme.c b/lib/bdev/nvme/bdev_nvme.c
index e44e99c2f..3b27bcde9 100644
--- a/lib/bdev/nvme/bdev_nvme.c
+++ b/lib/bdev/nvme/bdev_nvme.c
@@ -376,6 +376,13 @@ _bdev_nvme_submit_request(struct spdk_io_channel *ch, struct spdk_bdev_io *bdev_
 					bdev_io->u.write.len,
 					bdev_io->u.write.offset);
 
+	case SPDK_BDEV_IO_TYPE_WRITE_ZEROES:
+		return bdev_nvme_unmap((struct nvme_bdev *)bdev_io->bdev->ctxt,
+				       ch,
+				       (struct nvme_bdev_io *)bdev_io->driver_ctx,
+				       bdev_io->u.write.len,
+				       bdev_io->u.write.offset);
+
 	case SPDK_BDEV_IO_TYPE_UNMAP:
 		return bdev_nvme_unmap((struct nvme_bdev *)bdev_io->bdev->ctxt,
 				       ch,
@@ -442,6 +449,23 @@ bdev_nvme_io_type_supported(void *ctx, enum spdk_bdev_io_type io_type)
 		cdata = spdk_nvme_ctrlr_get_data(nbdev->nvme_ctrlr->ctrlr);
 		return cdata->oncs.dsm;
 
+	case SPDK_BDEV_IO_TYPE_WRITE_ZEROES:
+		cdata = spdk_nvme_ctrlr_get_data(nbdev->nvme_ctrlr->ctrlr);
+		/*
+		 * If an NVMe controller guarantees reading unallocated blocks returns zero,
+		 * we can implement WRITE_ZEROES as an NVMe deallocate command.
+		 */
+		if (cdata->oncs.dsm &&
+		    spdk_nvme_ns_get_dealloc_logical_block_read_value(nbdev->ns) == SPDK_NVME_DEALLOC_READ_00) {
+			return true;
+		}
+		/*
+		 * The NVMe controller write_zeroes function is currently not used by our driver.
+		 * If a user submits an arbitrarily large write_zeroes request to the controller, the request will fail.
+		 * Until this is resolved, we only claim support for write_zeroes if deallocated blocks return 0's when read.
+		 */
+		return false;
+
 	default:
 		return false;
 	}