diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py b/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
index 5911859c9d7..6ce9dcc0756 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                 self.num_lookahead_tokens = self.num_spec_tokens
             if speculative_config.uses_draft_model():
                 self.num_lookahead_tokens = self.num_spec_tokens
+            if speculative_config.use_dflash():
+                # DFlash requires an extra lookahead slot since it uses in-fill-style
+                # decoding instead of standard next-token sampling, so it has a query
+                # for the last sampled token plus queries for each draft token.
+                self.num_lookahead_tokens = self.num_spec_tokens + 1
 
         # Create the KV cache manager.
         if hash_block_size is None:
@@ -702,8 +707,9 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                 # extra block gets allocated which
                 # creates a mismatch between the number
                 # of local and remote blocks.
+                limit_lookahead_tokens = load_kv_async and self.use_eagle
                 effective_lookahead_tokens = (
-                    0 if request.num_computed_tokens == 0 else self.num_lookahead_tokens
+                    0 if limit_lookahead_tokens else self.num_lookahead_tokens
                 )
 
                 # Determine if we need to allocate cross-attention blocks.