diff --git a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_instance.c b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_instance.c
index 9b8d3ff5f42..952462968db 100644
--- a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_instance.c
+++ b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_instance.c
@@ -224,10 +224,12 @@ vn_instance_init_experimental_features(struct vn_instance *instance)
              "VkVenusExperimentalFeatures100000MESA is as below:"
              "\n\tmemoryResourceAllocationSize = %u"
              "\n\tglobalFencing = %u"
-             "\n\tlargeRing = %u",
+             "\n\tlargeRing = %u"
+             "\n\tsyncFdFencing = %u",
              instance->experimental.memoryResourceAllocationSize,
              instance->experimental.globalFencing,
-             instance->experimental.largeRing);
+             instance->experimental.largeRing,
+             instance->experimental.syncFdFencing);
    }
 
    return VK_SUCCESS;
diff --git a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
index 25f14ea57fb..20137ee7e28 100644
--- a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
+++ b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
@@ -845,8 +845,9 @@ vn_physical_device_init_external_fence_handles(
     * vkWaitForFences is translated to repeated vkGetFenceStatus.
     *
     * External fence is not possible currently.  At best, we could cheat by
-    * translating vkGetFenceFdKHR to vkWaitForFences and returning -1, when
-    * the handle type is sync file.
+    * translating vkGetFenceFdKHR to an empty renderer submission for the
+    * out fence, along with a venus protocol command to fix renderer side
+    * fence payload.
     *
     * We would like to create a vn_renderer_sync from a host-side VkFence,
     * similar to how a vn_renderer_bo is created from a host-side
@@ -856,6 +857,8 @@ vn_physical_device_init_external_fence_handles(
     * either of them depending on the occasions, and support external fences
     * and idle waiting.
     */
+   physical_dev->renderer_sync_fd_fence_features = 0;
+
    physical_dev->external_fence_handles = 0;
 
 #ifdef ANDROID
@@ -876,9 +879,9 @@ vn_physical_device_init_external_semaphore_handles(
     * vkWaitSemaphores is translated to repeated vkGetSemaphoreCounterValue.
     *
     * External semaphore is not possible currently.  We could cheat when the
-    * semaphore is binary and the handle type is sync file, but that would
-    * require associating a fence with the semaphore and doing vkWaitForFences
-    * in vkGetSemaphoreFdKHR.
+    * semaphore is binary and the handle type is sync file. We could do an
+    * empty renderer submission for the out fence, along with a venus protocol
+    * command to fix renderer side semaphore payload.
     *
     * We would like to create a vn_renderer_sync from a host-side VkSemaphore,
     * similar to how a vn_renderer_bo is created from a host-side
@@ -888,6 +891,8 @@ vn_physical_device_init_external_semaphore_handles(
     * host-side VkSemaphore.  That would allow the consumers to wait on the
     * host side rather than the guest side.
     */
+   physical_dev->renderer_sync_fd_semaphore_features = 0;
+
    physical_dev->external_binary_semaphore_handles = 0;
    physical_dev->external_timeline_semaphore_handles = 0;
 
diff --git a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.h b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.h
index 317cb976664..2185757f090 100644
--- a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.h
+++ b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.h
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ struct vn_physical_device {
       VkExternalMemoryHandleTypeFlags supported_handle_types;
    } external_memory;
 
+   /* syncFdFencing allows driver to query renderer sync_fd features */
+   VkExternalFenceFeatureFlags renderer_sync_fd_fence_features;
+   VkExternalSemaphoreFeatureFlags renderer_sync_fd_semaphore_features;
+
    VkExternalFenceHandleTypeFlags external_fence_handles;
    VkExternalSemaphoreHandleTypeFlags external_binary_semaphore_handles;
    VkExternalSemaphoreHandleTypeFlags external_timeline_semaphore_handles;