diff --git a/tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py b/tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py
index e9c6f1f95cd71..bff3724d95e68 100644
--- a/tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py
+++ b/tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ def test_kv_cache_block():
     assert block.block_hash is None
 
     # Test reference count manipulation
-    block.incr_ref()
+    block.ref_cnt += 1
     assert block.ref_cnt == 1
-    block.decr_ref()
+    block.ref_cnt -= 1
     assert block.ref_cnt == 0
 
     # Test block hash setting and resetting
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/block_pool.py b/vllm/v1/core/block_pool.py
index 5bf4d3a2acb45..ad9854dd29c38 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/block_pool.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/block_pool.py
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ class BlockPool:
                 # candidate), so remove it.
                 if block.ref_cnt == 0 and not block.is_null:
                     self.free_block_queue.remove(block)
-                block.incr_ref()
+                block.ref_cnt += 1
 
     def free_blocks(self, ordered_blocks: Iterable[KVCacheBlock]) -> None:
         """Free a list of blocks. The blocks should be ordered by their
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py
index 258805843e227..f3a16d64e19fd 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py
@@ -126,14 +126,17 @@ class KVCacheCoordinator(ABC):
     def get_num_common_prefix_blocks(self, request_id: str,
                                      num_running_requests: int) -> list[int]:
         """
-        Get the number of common prefix blocks for a request.
+        Get the number of common prefix blocks for all requests in the RUNNING
+        state for each kv cache group.
 
         Args:
             request_id: The request ID.
-            num_running_requests: The number of requests in the RUNNING state.
+            num_running_requests: The total number of requests in the RUNNING
+                state.
 
         Returns:
-            list[int]: The number of common prefix blocks.
+            list[int]: The number of common prefix blocks for all requests in
+                the RUNNING state for each kv cache group.
         """
         num_blocks_per_group = [
             manager.get_num_common_prefix_blocks(request_id,
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_manager.py b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_manager.py
index e820a0ad6d5d0..ce333dbe61a19 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_manager.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_manager.py
@@ -170,10 +170,6 @@ class KVCacheManager:
                                                self.block_size, request)
             self.req_to_block_hashes[request.request_id] = block_hashes
 
-        if self.log_stats:
-            assert self.prefix_cache_stats is not None
-            self.prefix_cache_stats.requests += 1
-
         # NOTE: When all tokens hit the cache, we must recompute the last token
         # to obtain logits. Thus, set max_cache_hit_length to prompt_length - 1.
         # This can trigger recomputation of an entire block, rather than just
@@ -187,6 +183,7 @@ class KVCacheManager:
 
         if self.log_stats:
             assert self.prefix_cache_stats is not None
+            self.prefix_cache_stats.requests += 1
             self.prefix_cache_stats.queries += request.num_tokens
             self.prefix_cache_stats.hits += num_new_computed_tokens
 
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py
index 3a72ac271afa6..25520eb655111 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py
@@ -154,14 +154,6 @@ class KVCacheBlock:
     # Whether the block is a null block that should never be cached.
     is_null: bool = False
 
-    # TODO(Jialin): For performance, let callers handle ref_cnt bumps to
-    # avoid function calls.
-    def incr_ref(self):
-        self.ref_cnt += 1
-
-    def decr_ref(self):
-        self.ref_cnt -= 1
-
     @property
     def block_hash(self) -> Optional[BlockHashWithGroupId]:
         return self._block_hash
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py b/vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
index 714f49494c9a1..8f310023a8cd3 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import itertools
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from collections import defaultdict
 from typing import Callable
@@ -177,14 +178,17 @@ class SingleTypeKVCacheManager(ABC):
     def get_num_common_prefix_blocks(self, request_id: str,
                                      num_running_requests: int) -> int:
         """
-        Get the number of common prefix blocks for a request.
+        Get the number of common prefix blocks for all requests in the RUNNING
+        state.
 
         Args:
             request_id: The request ID.
-            num_running_requests: The number of requests in the RUNNING state.
+            num_running_requests: The total number of requests in the RUNNING
+                state.
 
         Returns:
-            The number of common prefix blocks.
+            The number of common prefix blocks for all requests in the RUNNING
+                state.
         """
 
         raise NotImplementedError
@@ -264,7 +268,7 @@ class FullAttentionManager(SingleTypeKVCacheManager):
         computed_blocks: tuple[list[KVCacheBlock], ...] = tuple(
             [] for _ in range(len(kv_cache_group_ids)))
         max_num_blocks = max_length // kv_cache_spec.block_size
-        for i, block_hash in zip(range(max_num_blocks), block_hashes):
+        for block_hash in itertools.islice(block_hashes, max_num_blocks):
             # block_hashes is a chain of block hashes. If a block hash is not
             # in the cached_block_hash_to_id, the following block hashes are
             # not computed yet for sure.