diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/mistral.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/mistral.py
index 7bc857575651..f2a4faa18b17 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/mistral.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/mistral.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
 
 import torch
 from torch import nn
-from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.mistral import MistralConfig
 
 from vllm.model_executor.input_metadata import InputMetadata
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import SiluAndMul
@@ -46,6 +45,7 @@ from vllm.model_executor.weight_utils import (
     convert_pyslice_to_tensor, hf_model_weights_iterator,
     load_tensor_parallel_weights, load_padded_tensor_parallel_vocab)
 from vllm.sequence import SamplerOutput
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.mistral import MistralConfig
 
 KVCache = Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]
 
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
index fd5618bd81ba..a1efbedb6895 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ _CONFIG_REGISTRY = {
 def get_config(model: str,
                trust_remote_code: bool,
                revision: Optional[str] = None) -> PretrainedConfig:
+    # NOTE: Because the Mistral model in HF hub does not have
+    # `configuration_mistral.py`, we cannot use `AutoConfig` to load the
+    # config. Instead, we use `MistralConfig` directly.
+    # NOTE: This is a hack. This does not work for local models.
+    # FIXME: Remove this once the Mistral model is available in the stable
+    # version of HF transformers.
+    if "mistral" in model.lower():
+        return MistralConfig.from_pretrained(model, revision=revision)
+
     try:
         config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
             model, trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code, revision=revision)
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py
index 6611697d25ae..3955c772b7b3 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.qwen import QWenConfig
 # tiiuae/falcon-7b(-instruct) models. Newer Falcon models will use the
 # `FalconConfig` class from the official HuggingFace transformers library.
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.falcon import RWConfig
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.mistral import MistralConfig
 
 __all__ = [
     "MPTConfig",
@@ -13,4 +14,5 @@ __all__ = [
     "AquilaConfig",
     "QWenConfig",
     "RWConfig",
+    "MistralConfig",
 ]
diff --git a/vllm/worker/worker.py b/vllm/worker/worker.py
index e14086f27107..0de9d248a3e7 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/worker.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/worker.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class Worker:
         # self.init_cache_engine().
         self.cache_config = None
         self.block_size = None
+        self.sliding_window = None
         self.cache_engine = None
         self.cache_events = None
         self.gpu_cache = None
@@ -136,10 +137,13 @@ class Worker:
     def init_cache_engine(self, cache_config: CacheConfig) -> None:
         self.cache_config = cache_config
         self.block_size = cache_config.block_size
+        self.sliding_window = cache_config.sliding_window
 
-        max_seq_len = min(self.scheduler_config.max_model_len,
-                          cache_config.sliding_window or float("inf"))
-
+        if self.sliding_window is None:
+            max_seq_len = self.scheduler_config.max_model_len
+        else:
+            max_seq_len = min(self.scheduler_config.max_model_len,
+                              self.sliding_window)
         _check_if_can_support_max_seq_len(max_seq_len, self.block_size)
 
         self.cache_engine = CacheEngine(self.cache_config, self.model_config,
@@ -151,6 +155,8 @@ class Worker:
         self,
         seq_group_metadata_list: List[SequenceGroupMetadata],
     ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, InputMetadata]:
+        assert self.block_size is not None
+
         seq_groups: List[Tuple[List[int], SamplingParams]] = []
         input_tokens: List[int] = []
         input_positions: List[int] = []
@@ -193,9 +199,6 @@ class Worker:
                 slot = block_number * self.block_size + block_offset
                 slot_mapping.append(slot)
 
-        sliding_window = getattr(self.model_config.hf_config, "sliding_window",
-                                 float("inf"))
-
         # Add generation tokens.
         max_context_len = 0
         max_num_blocks_per_seq = 0
@@ -216,8 +219,8 @@ class Worker:
 
                 context_len = seq_data.get_len()
                 position = context_len - 1
-                if sliding_window:
-                    context_len = min(context_len, sliding_window)
+                if self.sliding_window is not None:
+                    context_len = min(context_len, self.sliding_window)
                 input_positions.append(position)
 
                 block_table = seq_group_metadata.block_tables[seq_id]
@@ -232,10 +235,9 @@ class Worker:
                 slot = block_number * self.block_size + block_offset
                 slot_mapping.append(slot)
 
-                if sliding_window:
-                    assert self.cache_config is not None
-                    sliding_window_blocks = (sliding_window //
-                                             self.cache_config.block_size)
+                if self.sliding_window is not None:
+                    sliding_window_blocks = (self.sliding_window //
+                                             self.block_size)
                     block_table = block_table[-sliding_window_blocks:]
                 generation_block_tables.append(block_table)
 
@@ -277,7 +279,7 @@ class Worker:
             context_lens=context_lens_tensor,
             max_context_len=max_context_len,
             block_tables=block_tables_tensor,
-            sliding_window=sliding_window,
+            sliding_window=self.sliding_window,
         )
         return tokens_tensor, positions_tensor, input_metadata