diff --git a/docs/spec-conformance.md b/docs/spec-conformance.md
index 10496703ba1..f18f5dcfd71 100644
--- a/docs/spec-conformance.md
+++ b/docs/spec-conformance.md
@@ -17,4 +17,3 @@ v1.1.0-rc.1  | `SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV` | [#3862](https://github
 v1.1.0-rc.2  | time namespaces                          | [#3876](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3876)
 v1.1.0-rc.2  | rsvd hugetlb cgroup                      | TODO ([#3859](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3859))
 v1.1.0-rc.3  | `.process.scheduler`                     | TODO ([#3895](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3895))
-v1.1.0-rc.3  | `.process.ioPriority`                    | [#3783](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3783)
diff --git a/docs/terminals.md b/docs/terminals.md
index aa9f71ee059..bec9a5fe2a9 100644
--- a/docs/terminals.md
+++ b/docs/terminals.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ you use `runc` directly in something like a `systemd` unit file. To disable
 this `LISTEN_FDS`-style passing just unset `LISTEN_FDS`.
 
 **Be very careful when passing file descriptors to a container process.** Due
-to some Linux kernel (mis)features, a container with access to certain types of
+to some Linux kernel misfeatures, a container with access to certain types of
 file descriptors (such as `O_PATH` descriptors) outside of the container's root
 file system can use these to break out of the container's pivoted mount
 namespace. [This has resulted in CVEs in the past.][CVE-2016-9962]
diff --git a/libcontainer/configs/config.go b/libcontainer/configs/config.go
index d43ea7860a2..7666e000075 100644
--- a/libcontainer/configs/config.go
+++ b/libcontainer/configs/config.go
@@ -212,6 +212,20 @@ type Config struct {
 	// RootlessCgroups is set when unlikely to have the full access to cgroups.
 	// When RootlessCgroups is set, cgroups errors are ignored.
 	RootlessCgroups bool `json:"rootless_cgroups,omitempty"`
+
+	// IOPriority is the container's I/O priority.
+	IOPriority *IOPriority `json:"io_priority,omitempty"`
+}
+
+var IOPrioClassMapping = map[specs.IOPriorityClass]int{
+	specs.IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:   1,
+	specs.IOPRIO_CLASS_BE:   2,
+	specs.IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE: 3,
+}
+
+type IOPriority struct {
+	Class    specs.IOPriorityClass `json:"class"`
+	Priority int                   `json:"priority"`
 }
 
 type (
diff --git a/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator.go b/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator.go
index 483e7a2ff3e..df3b0ab0702 100644
--- a/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator.go
+++ b/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ func Validate(config *configs.Config) error {
 		sysctl,
 		intelrdtCheck,
 		rootlessEUIDCheck,
+		ioPriority,
 	}
 	for _, c := range checks {
 		if err := c(config); err != nil {
@@ -286,3 +287,14 @@ func isHostNetNS(path string) (bool, error) {
 
 	return (st1.Dev == st2.Dev) && (st1.Ino == st2.Ino), nil
 }
+
+func ioPriority(config *configs.Config) error {
+	if config.IOPriority == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	priority := config.IOPriority.Priority
+	if priority < 0 || priority > 7 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid ioPriority.Priority: %d", priority)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator_test.go b/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator_test.go
index f59d0f2030c..4d14c04ac20 100644
--- a/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator_test.go
+++ b/libcontainer/configs/validate/validator_test.go
@@ -387,3 +387,32 @@ func TestValidateMounts(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestValidateIOPriority(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := []struct {
+		isErr    bool
+		priority int
+	}{
+		{isErr: false, priority: 0},
+		{isErr: false, priority: 7},
+		{isErr: true, priority: -1},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		ioPriroty := configs.IOPriority{
+			Priority: tc.priority,
+		}
+		config := &configs.Config{
+			Rootfs:     "/var",
+			IOPriority: &ioPriroty,
+		}
+
+		err := Validate(config)
+		if tc.isErr && err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("iopriority: %d, expected error, got nil", tc.priority)
+		}
+		if !tc.isErr && err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("iopriority: %d, expected nil, got error %v", tc.priority, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/libcontainer/process.go b/libcontainer/process.go
index 8a5d340dacd..348f3ef25e3 100644
--- a/libcontainer/process.go
+++ b/libcontainer/process.go
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ type Process struct {
 	//
 	// For cgroup v2, the only key allowed is "".
 	SubCgroupPaths map[string]string
+
+	IOPriority *configs.IOPriority
 }
 
 // Wait waits for the process to exit.
diff --git a/libcontainer/process_linux.go b/libcontainer/process_linux.go
index 48861406dba..df4f170dd0f 100644
--- a/libcontainer/process_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/process_linux.go
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ func (p *setnsProcess) signal(sig os.Signal) error {
 
 func (p *setnsProcess) start() (retErr error) {
 	defer p.messageSockPair.parent.Close()
+	if p.process.IOPriority != nil {
+		if err := utils.SetIOPriority(p.process.IOPriority); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
 	// get the "before" value of oom kill count
 	oom, _ := p.manager.OOMKillCount()
 	err := p.cmd.Start()
diff --git a/libcontainer/specconv/spec_linux.go b/libcontainer/specconv/spec_linux.go
index 809424a97eb..27e7c957107 100644
--- a/libcontainer/specconv/spec_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/specconv/spec_linux.go
@@ -491,6 +491,12 @@ func CreateLibcontainerConfig(opts *CreateOpts) (*configs.Config, error) {
 				Ambient:     spec.Process.Capabilities.Ambient,
 			}
 		}
+		if spec.Process.IOPriority != nil {
+			config.IOPriority = &configs.IOPriority{
+				Class:    spec.Process.IOPriority.Class,
+				Priority: spec.Process.IOPriority.Priority,
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	createHooks(spec, config)
 	config.Version = specs.Version
diff --git a/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go b/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
index a4c01953aeb..58ce92e9f9b 100644
--- a/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/keys"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/seccomp"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system"
+	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils"
 )
 
 type linuxStandardInit struct {
@@ -159,6 +160,13 @@ func (l *linuxStandardInit) Init() error {
 			return &os.SyscallError{Syscall: "prctl(SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS)", Err: err}
 		}
 	}
+
+	if l.config.Config.IOPriority != nil {
+		if err := utils.SetIOPriority(l.config.Config.IOPriority); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
 	// Tell our parent that we're ready to Execv. This must be done before the
 	// Seccomp rules have been applied, because we need to be able to read and
 	// write to a socket.
diff --git a/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go b/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go
index 220d0b43937..c1ca3dc621c 100644
--- a/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go
+++ b/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
+	"syscall"
+
+	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/configs"
 
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
@@ -67,3 +70,22 @@ func NewSockPair(name string) (parent *os.File, child *os.File, err error) {
 	}
 	return os.NewFile(uintptr(fds[1]), name+"-p"), os.NewFile(uintptr(fds[0]), name+"-c"), nil
 }
+
+const (
+	IoprioWhoPgrp = 1
+)
+
+func SetIOPriority(ioprio *configs.IOPriority) error {
+	class, ok := configs.IOPrioClassMapping[ioprio.Class]
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid io priority class: %s", ioprio.Class)
+	}
+
+	// Combine class and priority into a single value
+	iop := (class << 13) | ioprio.Priority
+	_, _, errno := syscall.RawSyscall(syscall.SYS_IOPRIO_SET, IoprioWhoPgrp, 0, uintptr(iop))
+	if errno != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to set io priority: %w", errno)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/tests/integration/ioprio.bats b/tests/integration/ioprio.bats
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a907d782f01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/ioprio.bats
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats
+
+load helpers
+
+function setup() {
+	setup_debian
+}
+
+function teardown() {
+	teardown_bundle
+}
+
+@test "ioprio_set is applied to process group" {
+	# Create a container with a specific I/O priority.
+	update_config '.process.ioPriority = {"class": "IOPRIO_CLASS_BE", "priority": 4}'
+
+	runc run -d --console-socket "$CONSOLE_SOCKET" test_ioprio
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+
+	# Check the init process.
+	runc exec test_ioprio ionice -p 1
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	[[ "$output" = *'best-effort: prio 4'* ]]
+
+	# Check the process made from the exec command.
+	runc exec test_ioprio ionice
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+
+	[[ "$output" = *'best-effort: prio 4'* ]]
+}
diff --git a/utils_linux.go b/utils_linux.go
index 4c00b2092db..d42b01a4b33 100644
--- a/utils_linux.go
+++ b/utils_linux.go
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ func newProcess(p specs.Process) (*libcontainer.Process, error) {
 		lp.ConsoleHeight = uint16(p.ConsoleSize.Height)
 	}
 
+	if p.IOPriority != nil {
+		lp.IOPriority = &configs.IOPriority{
+			Class:    p.IOPriority.Class,
+			Priority: p.IOPriority.Priority,
+		}
+	}
+
 	if p.Capabilities != nil {
 		lp.Capabilities = &configs.Capabilities{}
 		lp.Capabilities.Bounding = p.Capabilities.Bounding