diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/io.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/io.go
index e01ea001b..4c4d656c1 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/io.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/io.go
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func setIo(dirPath string, cgroup *configs.Cgroup) error {
 	if cgroup.Resources.BlkioWeight != 0 {
 		filename := "io.bfq.weight"
 		if err := fscommon.WriteFile(dirPath, filename,
-			strconv.FormatUint(cgroups.ConvertBlkIOToCgroupV2Value(cgroup.Resources.BlkioWeight), 10)); err != nil {
+			strconv.FormatUint(uint64(cgroup.Resources.BlkioWeight), 10)); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go
index 840817e39..a542b538e 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go
@@ -400,17 +400,6 @@ func WriteCgroupProc(dir string, pid int) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-// Since the OCI spec is designed for cgroup v1, in some cases
-// there is need to convert from the cgroup v1 configuration to cgroup v2
-// the formula for BlkIOWeight is y = (1 + (x - 10) * 9999 / 990)
-// convert linearly from [10-1000] to [1-10000]
-func ConvertBlkIOToCgroupV2Value(blkIoWeight uint16) uint64 {
-	if blkIoWeight == 0 {
-		return 0
-	}
-	return uint64(1 + (uint64(blkIoWeight)-10)*9999/990)
-}
-
 // Since the OCI spec is designed for cgroup v1, in some cases
 // there is need to convert from the cgroup v1 configuration to cgroup v2
 // the formula for cpuShares is y = (1 + ((x - 2) * 9999) / 262142)
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/utils_test.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/utils_test.go
index 9e7e4ed9e..0f621f25c 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/utils_test.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/utils_test.go
@@ -548,20 +548,6 @@ func TestGetHugePageSizeImpl(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestConvertBlkIOToCgroupV2Value(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := map[uint16]uint64{
-		0:    0,
-		10:   1,
-		1000: 10000,
-	}
-	for i, expected := range cases {
-		got := ConvertBlkIOToCgroupV2Value(i)
-		if got != expected {
-			t.Errorf("expected ConvertBlkIOToCgroupV2Value(%d) to be %d, got %d", i, expected, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestConvertCPUSharesToCgroupV2Value(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := map[uint64]uint64{
 		0:      0,
diff --git a/tests/integration/cgroups.bats b/tests/integration/cgroups.bats
index a319ed042..1cf2ead49 100644
--- a/tests/integration/cgroups.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/cgroups.bats
@@ -190,6 +190,20 @@ function setup() {
 	[[ "$output" == *'invalid configuration'* ]]
 }
 
+@test "runc run (blkio weight)" {
+	requires root cgroups_v2
+
+	set_cgroups_path "$BUSYBOX_BUNDLE"
+	update_config '.linux.resources.blockIO |= {"weight": 750}' "${BUSYBOX_BUNDLE}"
+
+	runc run -d --console-socket "$CONSOLE_SOCKET" test_cgroups_unified
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+
+	runc exec test_cgroups_unified sh -c 'cat /sys/fs/cgroup/io.bfq.weight'
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	[ "$output" = 'default 750' ]
+}
+
 @test "runc run (cgroup v2 resources.unified only)" {
 	requires root cgroups_v2