diff --git a/tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py b/tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
index 3cb533dccd62c..aa47f28a34dd5 100644
--- a/tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
+++ b/tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
@@ -123,8 +123,11 @@ class CPTestSettings:
 
 CP_TEXT_GENERATION_MODELS = {
     "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat": [
+        CPTestSettings.detailed(dcp_multipliers=[1]),
         CPTestSettings.detailed(
-            dcp_multipliers=[0.5, 1], cp_kv_cache_interleave_size=64
+            dcp_multipliers=[0.5],
+            cp_kv_cache_interleave_size=64,
+            attn_backend="FLASHMLA",
         ),
     ],
     "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct": [
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashattn_mla.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashattn_mla.py
index eccf4ec791095..b28814aceada9 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashattn_mla.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashattn_mla.py
@@ -105,13 +105,14 @@ class FlashAttnMLAMetadataBuilder(MLACommonMetadataBuilder[FlashAttnMLAMetadata]
         vllm_config: VllmConfig,
         device: torch.device,
     ):
+        interleave_size = vllm_config.parallel_config.cp_kv_cache_interleave_size
         super().__init__(
             kv_cache_spec,
             layer_names,
             vllm_config,
             device,
             FlashAttnMLAMetadata,
-            supports_dcp_with_varlen=True,
+            supports_dcp_with_varlen=(interleave_size == 1),
         )
         self.max_num_splits = 0  # No upper bound on the number of splits.
         self.fa_aot_schedule = get_flash_attn_version() == 3