diff --git a/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py b/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
index 96e39fd92eba..9e38e63a0883 100644
--- a/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
+++ b/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
@@ -358,7 +358,23 @@ def get_requests(args, tokenizer):
         raise ValueError(f"Unknown dataset name: {args.dataset_name}")
     # Remove None values
     sample_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in sample_kwargs.items() if v is not None}
-    return dataset_cls(**common_kwargs).sample(**sample_kwargs)
+    requests = dataset_cls(**common_kwargs).sample(**sample_kwargs)
+    requests = filter_requests_for_dp(requests, args.data_parallel_size)
+    return requests
+
+
+def filter_requests_for_dp(requests, data_parallel_size):
+    # Note(zhuohan): The way we get data_parallel_rank is hacky and only
+    # works for external launcher mode. Should be cleaned up and deprecated
+    # in the future with a better vLLM distributed process design.
+    if data_parallel_size == 1:
+        return requests
+
+    global_rank = int(os.environ["RANK"])
+    world_size = int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"])
+    data_parallel_rank = global_rank // (world_size // data_parallel_size)
+    return [r for i, r in enumerate(requests)
+            if i % data_parallel_size == data_parallel_rank]
 
 
 def validate_args(args):
@@ -453,12 +469,17 @@ def validate_args(args):
     if args.backend == "mii" and args.tokenizer != args.model:
         raise ValueError(
             "Tokenizer must be the same as the model for MII backend.")
-    
-    # --data-parallel is not supported currently.
-    # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/16222
-    if args.data_parallel_size > 1:
+
+    if args.data_parallel_size > 1 and (
+        args.distributed_executor_backend != "external_launcher"
+        or args.async_engine):
+        # --data-parallel is not supported fully.
+        # Old issue: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/16222
+        # Currently we only support data parallel with external launcher
+        # mode (i.e., launch with toruchrun).
         raise ValueError(
-            "Data parallel is not supported in offline benchmark, "
+            "Data parallel is only supported with external launcher mode "
+            "with synchronous engine in offline benchmark, "
             "please use benchmark serving instead"
         )