diff --git a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_config.py b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_config.py
index f597c8fa27..acf55972df 100644
--- a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_config.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.offloading.scheduler import (
     SchedulerOffloadConfig,
 )
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
+from vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_utils import generate_scheduler_kv_cache_config
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import (
     FullAttentionSpec,
     HiddenStateCacheSpec,
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import (
     UniformTypeKVCacheSpecs,
 )
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_spec_registry import KVCacheSpecRegistry
+from vllm.v1.kv_offload.file_mapper import FileMapper
+from vllm.v1.kv_offload.tiering.spec import TieringOffloadingSpec
 
 
 def _make_vllm_config(
@@ -876,6 +879,43 @@ def test_canonical_layout_certifies_v2_model_runner():
     assert _parallelism_agnostic(groups, canonical=True, v2=True)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("tp_size", [1, 2, 4])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("scheduler", [False, True])
+def test_canonical_mla_dsa_rows_are_tp_independent(tp_size, scheduler):
+    specs = {
+        f"l{i}": _mla_spec(block_size=64, head_size=size, dtype=torch.uint8)
+        for i, size in enumerate([656] * 4 + [132] * 3)
+    }
+    uniform = UniformTypeKVCacheSpecs(block_size=64, kv_cache_specs=specs)
+    kv_cache_config = KVCacheConfig(
+        num_blocks=4,
+        kv_cache_tensors=[
+            KVCacheTensor(
+                size=4 * uniform.page_size_bytes,
+                layers=list(specs),
+                layer_stride=0,
+                block_stride=uniform.page_size_bytes,
+            )
+        ],
+        kv_cache_groups=[KVCacheGroupSpec(list(specs), uniform)],
+    )
+    if scheduler:
+        kv_cache_config = generate_scheduler_kv_cache_config([kv_cache_config])
+    config = _make_vllm_config(
+        tensor_parallel_size=tp_size,
+        extra_config={"canonical_layout": True, "cpu_bytes_to_use": 196608 * 8},
+    )
+    config.cache_config.kv_cache_layout = "LBHNC"
+    config.parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend = "mp"
+    offloading_config = build_offloading_config(config, kv_cache_config)
+    spec = TieringOffloadingSpec(offloading_config)
+    assert spec.kv_bytes_per_chunk == 196608
+    assert spec.num_chunks == 8
+    mapper = FileMapper.from_offloading_spec("/cache", spec, parallel_agnostic=True)
+    assert mapper.get_run_config()["tp_size"] == 1
+    assert mapper.get_run_config()["replicated_layout"] is True
+
+
 def test_parallelism_agnostic_disabled_on_v2_model_runner():
     config = _make_vllm_config()
     config.use_v2_model_runner = True
diff --git a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_worker.py b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_worker.py
index 7a987fef3d..64f481d02e 100644
--- a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_worker.py
+++ b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_worker.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ def _make_worker(
     kv_cache_config: KVCacheConfig,
     replicated_layout: bool = False,
     rank: int = 0,
+    canonical_layout: bool = False,
 ):
     """Create an OffloadingConnectorWorker with mocked dependencies."""
     from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.offloading.worker import (
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ def _make_worker(
     spec = MagicMock(spec=OffloadingSpec)
     spec.replicated_layout = replicated_layout
     spec.config = MagicMock()
+    spec.config.canonical_layout = canonical_layout
     spec.config.parallel.rank = rank
     spec.get_worker.return_value = MagicMock()
 
@@ -204,11 +206,13 @@ def test_prepare_store_kv_non_writer_marks_completed_without_submit():
     assert meta.completed_jobs == {7: 1}
 
 
-def test_prepare_store_kv_writer_submits_store():
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("rank,canonical_layout", [(0, False), (0, True), (1, True)])
+def test_prepare_store_kv_writer_submits_store(rank, canonical_layout):
     worker, _ = _make_worker(
         KVCacheConfig(num_blocks=0, kv_cache_tensors=[], kv_cache_groups=[]),
         replicated_layout=True,
-        rank=0,
+        rank=rank,
+        canonical_layout=canonical_layout,
     )
 
     worker.prepare_store_kv(_store_metadata(8))
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/config.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/config.py
index c4e6d0f2a2..ca503d4e67 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/config.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/config.py
@@ -233,6 +233,20 @@ def build_offloading_config(
             and parallel_config.world_size == tp_size
         )
 
+    if canonical_layout and is_parallelism_agnostic:
+        replicated_layout = (
+            all(
+                type(spec) is MLAAttentionSpec
+                for _, group in selected_groups
+                for spec in iter_layer_specs(group.kv_cache_spec)
+            )
+            and parallel_config.nnodes_within_dp == 1
+            and (
+                parallel_config.world_size == 1
+                or parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend == "mp"
+            )
+        )
+
     kv_events_config = vllm_config.kv_events_config
     cache_dtype = (
         vllm_config.model_config.dtype
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/worker.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/worker.py
index 94e8a8109d..5b14e50dda 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/worker.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/worker.py
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ class OffloadingConnectorWorker:
         self.worker: OffloadingWorker | None = None
         # Non-writers still ack: pending_count waits for world_size per job.
         self._is_store_writer = (
-            not self.spec.replicated_layout or self.spec.config.parallel.rank == 0
+            not self.spec.replicated_layout
+            or self.spec.config.canonical_layout
+            or self.spec.config.parallel.rank == 0
         )
 
         # job_id -> req_id for in-flight loads.