diff --git a/test/TEST-19-DELEGATE/testsuite.sh b/test/TEST-19-DELEGATE/testsuite.sh
index c738bea10e..abfcee3cd2 100755
--- a/test/TEST-19-DELEGATE/testsuite.sh
+++ b/test/TEST-19-DELEGATE/testsuite.sh
@@ -11,10 +11,27 @@ if grep -q cgroup2 /proc/filesystems ; then
                     -w /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/test0.service/cgroup.subtree_control
 
         systemd-run --wait --unit=test1.service -p "DynamicUser=1" -p "Delegate=memory pids" \
-                    grep memory /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/test1.service/cgroup.controllers
+                    grep -q memory /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/test1.service/cgroup.controllers
 
         systemd-run --wait --unit=test2.service -p "DynamicUser=1" -p "Delegate=memory pids" \
-                    grep pids /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/test2.service/cgroup.controllers
+                    grep -q pids /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/test2.service/cgroup.controllers
+
+        # "io" is not among the controllers enabled by default for all units, verify that
+        grep -qv io /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/cgroup.controllers
+
+        # Run a service with "io" enabled, and verify it works
+        systemd-run --wait --unit=test3.service -p "IOAccounting=yes" -p "Slice=system-foo-bar-baz.slice"  \
+                    grep -q io /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/system-foo.slice/system-foo-bar.slice/system-foo-bar-baz.slice/test3.service/cgroup.controllers
+
+        # We want to check if "io" is removed again from the controllers
+        # list. However, PID 1 (rightfully) does this asynchronously. In order
+        # to force synchronization on this, let's start a short-lived service
+        # which requires PID 1 to refresh the cgroup tree, so that we can
+        # verify that this all works.
+        systemd-run --wait --unit=test4.service true
+
+        # And now check again, "io" should have vanished
+        grep -qv io /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/cgroup.controllers
 else
         echo "Skipping TEST-19-DELEGATE, as the kernel doesn't actually support cgroupsv2" >&2
 fi