diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.h
@@ -865,8 +865,16 @@
       LinalgTilingAndFusionOptions options,
       LinalgTransformationFilter f = LinalgTransformationFilter(),
       PatternBenefit benefit = 1);
+
+  /// `matchAndRewrite` implementation that returns the significant transformed
+  /// pieces of IR.
+  FailureOr<TileLoopNest>
+  returningMatchAndRewrite(Operation *op, PatternRewriter &rewriter) const;
+
   LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(Operation *op,
-                                PatternRewriter &rewriter) const override;
+                                PatternRewriter &rewriter) const override {
+    return returningMatchAndRewrite(op, rewriter);
+  }
 
 private:
   /// LinalgTransformMarker handles special attribute manipulations.
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp
@@ -549,7 +549,8 @@
     : RewritePattern(opName, benefit, context), filter(std::move(f)),
       options(std::move(options)) {}
 
-LogicalResult mlir::linalg::LinalgTileAndFuseTensorOpsPattern::matchAndRewrite(
+FailureOr<mlir::linalg::TileLoopNest>
+mlir::linalg::LinalgTileAndFuseTensorOpsPattern::returningMatchAndRewrite(
     Operation *op, PatternRewriter &rewriter) const {
   LinalgOp rootOp = dyn_cast<LinalgOp>(op);
   if (!rootOp)
@@ -604,7 +605,7 @@
   // Apply the filter if specified.
   for (LinalgOp linalgOp : tileLoopNest->getAllTiledAndFusedOps())
     filter.replaceLinalgTransformationFilter(rewriter, linalgOp);
-  return success();
+  return tileLoopNest;
 }
 
 /// Linalg generic interchange pattern.