diff --git a/fs/zonefs/file.c b/fs/zonefs/file.c
index 132f01d3461f..ab32ac17644c 100644
--- a/fs/zonefs/file.c
+++ b/fs/zonefs/file.c
@@ -342,6 +342,74 @@ static loff_t zonefs_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
 	return generic_file_llseek_size(file, offset, whence, isize, isize);
 }
 
+struct zonefs_bio {
+	/* The target inode of the BIO */
+	struct inode *inode;
+
+	/* For sync writes, the target write offset */
+	u64 woffset;
+
+	/*
+	 * This member must come last, bio_alloc_bioset will allocate enough
+	 * bytes for entire zonefs_bio but relies on bio being last.
+	 */
+	struct bio bio;
+};
+
+static inline struct zonefs_bio *zonefs_bio(struct bio *bio)
+{
+	return container_of(bio, struct zonefs_bio, bio);
+}
+
+static void zonefs_file_sync_write_dio_bio_end_io(struct bio *bio)
+{
+	struct zonefs_bio *zbio;
+	struct zonefs_zone *z;
+	sector_t wsector;
+
+	if (bio->bi_status != BLK_STS_OK)
+		goto bio_end;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the file zone was written underneath the file system, the zone
+	 * append operation can still succedd (if the zone is not full) but
+	 * the write append location will not be where we expect it to be.
+	 * Check that we wrote where we intended to, that is, at z->z_wpoffset.
+	 */
+	zbio = zonefs_bio(bio);
+	z = zonefs_inode_zone(zbio->inode);
+
+	wsector = z->z_sector + (zbio->woffset >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
+	if (bio->bi_iter.bi_sector != wsector) {
+		zonefs_warn(zbio->inode->i_sb,
+			    "Invalid write sector %llu for zone at %llu\n",
+			    bio->bi_iter.bi_sector, z->z_sector);
+		bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
+	}
+
+bio_end:
+	iomap_dio_bio_end_io(bio);
+}
+
+static void zonefs_file_sync_write_dio_submit_io(const struct iomap_iter *iter,
+						 struct bio *bio,
+						 loff_t file_offset)
+{
+	struct zonefs_bio *zbio = zonefs_bio(bio);
+	struct zonefs_zone *z = zonefs_inode_zone(iter->inode);
+
+	/* Use zone append for sync writes */
+	zbio->inode = iter->inode;
+	zbio->woffset = file_offset;
+
+	bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_OP_WRITE;
+	bio->bi_opf |= REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND;
+	bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = z->z_sector;
+	bio->bi_end_io = zonefs_file_sync_write_dio_bio_end_io;
+
+	submit_bio(bio);
+}
+
 static int zonefs_file_write_dio_end_io(struct kiocb *iocb, ssize_t size,
 					int error, unsigned int flags)
 {
@@ -372,93 +440,18 @@ static int zonefs_file_write_dio_end_io(struct kiocb *iocb, ssize_t size,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static const struct iomap_dio_ops zonefs_write_dio_ops = {
-	.end_io			= zonefs_file_write_dio_end_io,
-};
-
-static ssize_t zonefs_file_dio_append(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
-{
-	struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
-	struct zonefs_zone *z = zonefs_inode_zone(inode);
-	struct block_device *bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
-	unsigned int max = bdev_max_zone_append_sectors(bdev);
-	pgoff_t start, end;
-	struct bio *bio;
-	ssize_t size = 0;
-	int nr_pages;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	max = ALIGN_DOWN(max << SECTOR_SHIFT, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
-	iov_iter_truncate(from, max);
-
-	/*
-	 * If the inode block size (zone write granularity) is smaller than the
-	 * page size, we may be appending data belonging to the last page of the
-	 * inode straddling inode->i_size, with that page already cached due to
-	 * a buffered read or readahead. So make sure to invalidate that page.
-	 * This will always be a no-op for the case where the block size is
-	 * equal to the page size.
-	 */
-	start = iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	end = (iocb->ki_pos + iov_iter_count(from) - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	if (invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end))
-		return -EBUSY;
-
-	nr_pages = iov_iter_npages(from, BIO_MAX_VECS);
-	if (!nr_pages)
-		return 0;
-
-	bio = bio_alloc(bdev, nr_pages,
-			REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND | REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE, GFP_NOFS);
-	bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = z->z_sector;
-	bio->bi_ioprio = iocb->ki_ioprio;
-	if (iocb_is_dsync(iocb))
-		bio->bi_opf |= REQ_FUA;
-
-	ret = bio_iov_iter_get_pages(bio, from);
-	if (unlikely(ret))
-		goto out_release;
-
-	size = bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
-	task_io_account_write(size);
-
-	if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI)
-		bio_set_polled(bio, iocb);
-
-	ret = submit_bio_wait(bio);
+static struct bio_set zonefs_file_write_dio_bio_set;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the file zone was written underneath the file system, the zone
-	 * write pointer may not be where we expect it to be, but the zone
-	 * append write can still succeed. So check manually that we wrote where
-	 * we intended to, that is, at zi->i_wpoffset.
-	 */
-	if (!ret) {
-		sector_t wpsector =
-			z->z_sector + (z->z_wpoffset >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
-
-		if (bio->bi_iter.bi_sector != wpsector) {
-			zonefs_warn(inode->i_sb,
-				"Corrupted write pointer %llu for zone at %llu\n",
-				bio->bi_iter.bi_sector, z->z_sector);
-			ret = -EIO;
-		}
-	}
-
-	zonefs_file_write_dio_end_io(iocb, size, ret, 0);
-	trace_zonefs_file_dio_append(inode, size, ret);
-
-out_release:
-	bio_release_pages(bio, false);
-	bio_put(bio);
-
-	if (ret >= 0) {
-		iocb->ki_pos += size;
-		return size;
-	}
+static const struct iomap_dio_ops zonefs_sync_write_dio_ops = {
+	.submit_io	= zonefs_file_sync_write_dio_submit_io,
+	.end_io		= zonefs_file_write_dio_end_io,
+	.bio_set	= &zonefs_file_write_dio_bio_set,
+};
 
-	return ret;
-}
+static const struct iomap_dio_ops zonefs_async_write_dio_ops = {
+	.end_io		= zonefs_file_write_dio_end_io,
+	.bio_set	= &zonefs_file_write_dio_bio_set,
+};
 
 /*
  * Do not exceed the LFS limits nor the file zone size. If pos is under the
@@ -539,6 +532,7 @@ static ssize_t zonefs_file_dio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 	struct zonefs_inode_info *zi = ZONEFS_I(inode);
 	struct zonefs_zone *z = zonefs_inode_zone(inode);
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+	const struct iomap_dio_ops *dio_ops;
 	bool sync = is_sync_kiocb(iocb);
 	bool append = false;
 	ssize_t ret, count;
@@ -582,20 +576,26 @@ static ssize_t zonefs_file_dio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 	}
 
 	if (append) {
-		ret = zonefs_file_dio_append(iocb, from);
+		unsigned int max = bdev_max_zone_append_sectors(sb->s_bdev);
+
+		max = ALIGN_DOWN(max << SECTOR_SHIFT, sb->s_blocksize);
+		iov_iter_truncate(from, max);
+
+		dio_ops = &zonefs_sync_write_dio_ops;
 	} else {
-		/*
-		 * iomap_dio_rw() may return ENOTBLK if there was an issue with
-		 * page invalidation. Overwrite that error code with EBUSY to
-		 * be consistent with zonefs_file_dio_append() return value for
-		 * similar issues.
-		 */
-		ret = iomap_dio_rw(iocb, from, &zonefs_write_iomap_ops,
-				   &zonefs_write_dio_ops, 0, NULL, 0);
-		if (ret == -ENOTBLK)
-			ret = -EBUSY;
+		dio_ops = &zonefs_async_write_dio_ops;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * iomap_dio_rw() may return ENOTBLK if there was an issue with
+	 * page invalidation. Overwrite that error code with EBUSY so that
+	 * the user can make sense of the error.
+	 */
+	ret = iomap_dio_rw(iocb, from, &zonefs_write_iomap_ops,
+			   dio_ops, 0, NULL, 0);
+	if (ret == -ENOTBLK)
+		ret = -EBUSY;
+
 	if (zonefs_zone_is_seq(z) &&
 	    (ret > 0 || ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)) {
 		if (ret > 0)
@@ -900,3 +900,15 @@ const struct file_operations zonefs_file_operations = {
 	.splice_write	= iter_file_splice_write,
 	.iopoll		= iocb_bio_iopoll,
 };
+
+int zonefs_file_bioset_init(void)
+{
+	return bioset_init(&zonefs_file_write_dio_bio_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE,
+			   offsetof(struct zonefs_bio, bio),
+			   BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);
+}
+
+void zonefs_file_bioset_exit(void)
+{
+	bioset_exit(&zonefs_file_write_dio_bio_set);
+}
diff --git a/fs/zonefs/super.c b/fs/zonefs/super.c
index 23b8b299c64e..56c00111966a 100644
--- a/fs/zonefs/super.c
+++ b/fs/zonefs/super.c
@@ -1412,10 +1412,14 @@ static int __init zonefs_init(void)
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct zonefs_super) != ZONEFS_SUPER_SIZE);
 
-	ret = zonefs_init_inodecache();
+	ret = zonefs_file_bioset_init();
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	ret = zonefs_init_inodecache();
+	if (ret)
+		goto destroy_bioset;
+
 	ret = zonefs_sysfs_init();
 	if (ret)
 		goto destroy_inodecache;
@@ -1430,6 +1434,8 @@ static int __init zonefs_init(void)
 	zonefs_sysfs_exit();
 destroy_inodecache:
 	zonefs_destroy_inodecache();
+destroy_bioset:
+	zonefs_file_bioset_exit();
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1439,6 +1445,7 @@ static void __exit zonefs_exit(void)
 	unregister_filesystem(&zonefs_type);
 	zonefs_sysfs_exit();
 	zonefs_destroy_inodecache();
+	zonefs_file_bioset_exit();
 }
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Damien Le Moal");
diff --git a/fs/zonefs/zonefs.h b/fs/zonefs/zonefs.h
index 8175652241b5..f663b8ebc2cb 100644
--- a/fs/zonefs/zonefs.h
+++ b/fs/zonefs/zonefs.h
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ extern const struct file_operations zonefs_dir_operations;
 extern const struct address_space_operations zonefs_file_aops;
 extern const struct file_operations zonefs_file_operations;
 int zonefs_file_truncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t isize);
+int zonefs_file_bioset_init(void);
+void zonefs_file_bioset_exit(void);
 
 /* In sysfs.c */
 int zonefs_sysfs_register(struct super_block *sb);
