diff --git a/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/run_benchmark_aiperf.sh b/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/run_benchmark_aiperf.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..1f2d19b18417
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/run_benchmark_aiperf.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# aiperf-based benchmark script for disaggregated serving
+# Args: model_name dataset_file multi_round num_gen_servers concurrency_list streaming log_path hostname port ucx_warmup_requests
+
+set -e
+set -u
+trap 'echo "Error occurred at line $LINENO"; exit 1' ERR
+
+if [ "$#" -lt 10 ]; then
+    echo "Error: Missing required arguments, got $# arguments, args: $@"
+    echo "Usage: $0 model_name dataset_file multi_round num_gen_servers concurrency_list streaming log_path hostname port ucx_warmup_requests"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+model_name=$1
+dataset_file=$2
+multi_round=$3
+num_gen_servers=$4
+concurrency_list=$5
+streaming=$6
+log_path=$7
+hostname=$8
+port=$9
+ucx_warmup_requests=${10}
+
+# check process id is not 0
+if [[ ${SLURM_PROCID} != "0" ]]; then
+    echo "Process id is ${SLURM_PROCID} for loadgen, exiting"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# Always install/upgrade aiperf to ensure we have the version with trust_remote_code fix
+# (container may have an older version with parallel_decode.py that lacks trust_remote_code)
+echo "Installing aiperf..."
+pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps 'aiperf @ git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@ac3d91652e5e024bfb4ac38d48603423aad666bc'
+
+# warmup requests for ucx connections
+if [ "${ucx_warmup_requests}" -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo "warming up ucx connections with small requests... ${ucx_warmup_requests}"
+    python -m tensorrt_llm.serve.scripts.benchmark_serving \
+        --model ${model_name} \
+        --dataset-name random \
+        --random-ids \
+        --random-input-len 100 \
+        --random-output-len 10 \
+        --num-prompts ${ucx_warmup_requests} \
+        --host ${hostname} \
+        --port ${port} \
+        --ignore-eos \
+        --trust-remote-code \
+        --non-streaming
+    echo "UCX warmup done"
+fi
+
+# Trust remote code globally for custom tokenizers in parallel workers
+export HF_HUB_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE=1
+
+echo "Hostname: ${hostname}, Port: ${port}"
+echo "Starting aiperf benchmark..."
+
+concurrency_list=$(echo "${concurrency_list}" | tr ',' ' ')
+for concurrency in ${concurrency_list}; do
+    concurrency=$((concurrency))
+    request_count=$((concurrency * multi_round))
+    # benchmark_duration: 20min per round
+    benchmark_duration=$((multi_round * 1200))
+    echo "Benchmarking with concurrency ${concurrency} ... ${request_count} requests, duration ${benchmark_duration}s"
+    mkdir -p ${log_path}/concurrency_${concurrency}
+
+    aiperf profile \
+        -m ${model_name} \
+        --tokenizer ${model_name} \
+        --tokenizer-trust-remote-code \
+        --url http://${hostname}:${port} \
+        --streaming \
+        --ui simple \
+        --input-file ${dataset_file} \
+        --artifact-dir ${log_path}/concurrency_${concurrency} \
+        --concurrency ${concurrency} \
+        --concurrency-ramp-duration 60 \
+        --custom-dataset-type mooncake_trace \
+        --benchmark-duration ${benchmark_duration} \
+        --benchmark-grace-period 60 \
+        --workers-max 200 \
+        --request-timeout-seconds 1200 \
+        --profile-export-level records \
+        --extra-inputs ignore_eos:true \
+        --request-count ${request_count} \
+        --record-processors 8
+
+    echo "Benchmark with concurrency ${concurrency} done"
+done
+
+# Fetch perf metrics from disagg server
+echo "Fetching perf metrics from http://${hostname}:${port}/perf_metrics ..."
+curl -s "http://${hostname}:${port}/perf_metrics" > ${log_path}/perf_metrics.json 2>&1 || true
+if [ -s "${log_path}/perf_metrics.json" ]; then
+    echo "Perf metrics saved to ${log_path}/perf_metrics.json"
+else
+    echo "Warning: perf_metrics response was empty or endpoint not available"
+fi
diff --git a/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/submit.py b/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/submit.py
index a1bcedaf5087..cecf30fa9db3 100644
--- a/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/submit.py
+++ b/examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/submit.py
@@ -116,7 +116,9 @@ def assign_servers(
     return allocations
 
 
-def convert_allocations_to_server_config(allocations, server_port=8333):
+def convert_allocations_to_server_config(allocations,
+                                         server_port=8333,
+                                         router_config=None):
     generation_servers = {}
     context_servers = {}
     server_hostname = None
@@ -130,6 +132,8 @@ def convert_allocations_to_server_config(allocations, server_port=8333):
                 f"{list(instance['nodes'].keys())[0]}:{instance['port']}")
 
         server_config_entry = {'num_instances': num_servers, 'urls': urls}
+        if router_config:
+            server_config_entry['router'] = router_config.copy()
 
         if server_type == "GEN":
             generation_servers = server_config_entry
@@ -484,7 +488,12 @@ def submit_job(config, log_dir, dry_run):
         json.dump(allocations, f, indent=2)
 
     # Generate disagg server config
-    server_config = convert_allocations_to_server_config(allocations)
+    router_config = config.get('router_config', None)
+    server_config = convert_allocations_to_server_config(
+        allocations, router_config=router_config)
+    # Merge server_config_extra into disagg server config
+    if 'server_config_extra' in config:
+        server_config.update(config['server_config_extra'])
     with open(os.path.join(log_dir, "server_config_base.yaml"), "w") as f:
         yaml.dump(server_config, f)
     disagg_server_hostname = server_config['hostname']
@@ -606,7 +615,14 @@ def submit_job(config, log_dir, dry_run):
         benchmark_prefix = client_slurm_prefix + [
             f"--export \"{convert_envs_to_str(env_var)}\""
         ]
-        if benchmark_config['use_nv_sa_benchmark']:
+        if benchmark_config.get('use_aiperf', False):
+            benchmark_cmd = [
+                f"bash {os.path.join(script_dir, 'run_benchmark_aiperf.sh')}",
+                f"'{env_config['model_path']}' '{benchmark_config['dataset_file']}' {benchmark_config['multi_round']} {gen_num} '{benchmark_config['concurrency_list']}' {benchmark_config['streaming']} '{log_dir}' {disagg_server_hostname} {disagg_server_port} {ucx_warmup_requests}",
+                f"&> {log_dir}/6_bench.log"
+            ]
+            client_cmds.append(" ".join(benchmark_prefix + benchmark_cmd))
+        elif benchmark_config['use_nv_sa_benchmark']:
             if benchmark_config['mode'] == "gen_only":
                 print(
                     f"[ERROR] SA benchmark client script is not supported for gen_only mode"
diff --git a/tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py b/tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py
index c64eae2e3f6f..53685dbc0ad3 100644
--- a/tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py
+++ b/tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import asyncio
 import heapq
+import os
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from typing import Awaitable, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Union
 
@@ -642,9 +643,38 @@ def __init__(self,
         self._tokenizers = {}
         # TODO: use max_num_tokens? per server?
         self._max_batch_size = max_batch_size
+        env_tokens_per_block = os.environ.get(
+            "TRTLLM_KVCACHE_AWARE_ROUTER_HASH_TOKENS_PER_BLOCK")
+        if env_tokens_per_block is not None:
+            tokens_per_block = int(env_tokens_per_block)
         self._tokens_per_block = tokens_per_block
+        logger.info(
+            f"KvCacheAwareRouter: tokens_per_block={self._tokens_per_block}")
+
+    def _get_tokenizer(self, model: str):
+        if model not in self._tokenizers:
+            self._tokenizers[model] = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
+        return self._tokenizers[model]
 
     def _tokenize(self, request: OpenAIRequest) -> list[list[int]]:
+        # Handle ChatCompletionRequest (has messages, not prompt)
+        if isinstance(request, ChatCompletionRequest):
+            if request.prompt_token_ids is not None:
+                return [request.prompt_token_ids]
+            tokenizer = self._get_tokenizer(request.model)
+            token_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
+                [
+                    msg if isinstance(msg, dict) else dict(msg)
+                    for msg in request.messages
+                ],
+                add_generation_prompt=request.add_generation_prompt,
+                tokenize=True,
+            )
+            # Set prompt_token_ids so the worker server skips re-tokenization
+            request.prompt_token_ids = token_ids
+            return [token_ids]
+
+        # Handle CompletionRequest (has prompt)
         prompts = request.prompt
         if isinstance(prompts, list) and isinstance(prompts[0], list):
             return prompts
@@ -655,12 +685,12 @@ def _tokenize(self, request: OpenAIRequest) -> list[list[int]]:
         else:
             assert isinstance(prompts, list) and isinstance(prompts[0], str)
 
-        # TODO: send tokenize-only request instead of tokenizing locally
-        if request.model not in self._tokenizers:
-            self._tokenizers[request.model] = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
-                request.model)
-        tokenizer = self._tokenizers[request.model]
-        return [tokenizer(prompt)["input_ids"] for prompt in prompts]
+        tokenizer = self._get_tokenizer(request.model)
+        token_lists = [tokenizer(prompt)["input_ids"] for prompt in prompts]
+        # Replace string prompts with token IDs so the worker server
+        # skips re-tokenization
+        request.prompt = token_lists if len(token_lists) > 1 else token_lists[0]
+        return token_lists
 
     async def get_next_server(
             self,
diff --git a/tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py b/tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py
index 73310f5f03ab..c016be080e83 100644
--- a/tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py
+++ b/tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py
@@ -319,6 +319,162 @@ async def test_kv_cache_aware_router(servers):
     assert servers == ("server3", "server1", "server2")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("api_type", ["completion", "chat"])
+async def test_kv_cache_aware_router_multi_turn_conversation(api_type):
+    """Test that consecutive turns of a multi-turn conversation route to the
+    same server due to KV cache prefix hits.
+
+    Simulates two concurrent sessions inspired by
+    agentic_data/dataset_sample2000.jsonl session sess-fca58a1f44cd:
+      Turn 0: 68 hash_ids (system prompt + first user input)
+      Turn 1:  9 hash_ids (second user input, accumulated with turn 0)
+      Turn 2:  6 hash_ids (third user input, accumulated with turn 1)
+
+    Scaled down to 10, 3, 2 blocks for test manageability.  Each hash_id
+    maps to a deterministic block of tokens (mirroring aiperf's
+    HashIdRandomGenerator).  The router should prefer the server that
+    already caches the conversation's prefix.
+    """
+    server_list = ["server1", "server2", "server3"]
+    tokens_per_block = 32
+
+    router = KvCacheAwareRouter(
+        server_role=None,
+        servers=server_list,
+        use_tokens=False,
+        max_batch_size=64,
+        tokens_per_block=tokens_per_block,
+    )
+
+    # -- helpers ----------------------------------------------------------
+    def hash_id_to_block(hash_id: int) -> list[int]:
+        """Deterministic token block per hash_id (mirrors aiperf corpus sampling)."""
+        return [(hash_id * 7 + i) % 50000 for i in range(tokens_per_block)]
+
+    def build_tokens(hash_ids: list[int]) -> list[int]:
+        tokens = []
+        for hid in hash_ids:
+            tokens.extend(hash_id_to_block(hid))
+        # Append one extra token so the last full block is included in hashing.
+        # (KvCacheManager excludes the very last token from block keys.)
+        tokens.append(0)
+        return tokens
+
+    def make_request(token_ids: list[int]):
+        """Create a CompletionRequest or ChatCompletionRequest with pre-tokenized IDs."""
+        if api_type == "completion":
+            return CompletionRequest(model="TinyLlama", prompt=[token_ids])
+        else:
+            # Use prompt_token_ids to skip tokenizer (no real model needed)
+            return ChatCompletionRequest(
+                model="TinyLlama",
+                messages=[{
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": "dummy"
+                }],
+                prompt_token_ids=token_ids,
+            )
+
+    # -- dataset-inspired hash_ids per turn (new blocks only) -------------
+    # Session A (the conversation under test)
+    sess_a_turn0_hids = list(range(10))  # 10 blocks
+    sess_a_turn1_hids = list(range(100, 103))  # 3 new blocks
+    sess_a_turn2_hids = list(range(200, 202))  # 2 new blocks
+
+    # Session B (competing traffic on a different server)
+    sess_b_turn0_hids = list(range(500, 510))  # 10 completely different blocks
+
+    # -- build accumulated token sequences --------------------------------
+    # Turn 0: just the first turn's tokens
+    sess_a_turn0_tokens = build_tokens(sess_a_turn0_hids)
+
+    # Turn 1 accumulated: turn 0 tokens + simulated assistant reply + new user tokens
+    sess_a_turn1_tokens = build_tokens(sess_a_turn0_hids + [9990, 9991] +
+                                       sess_a_turn1_hids)
+    # (hash_ids 9990/9991 stand in for the assistant-reply blocks)
+
+    # Turn 2 accumulated: extends turn 1 further
+    sess_a_turn2_tokens = build_tokens(sess_a_turn0_hids + [9990, 9991] +
+                                       sess_a_turn1_hids + [9992, 9993] +
+                                       sess_a_turn2_hids)
+
+    sess_b_tokens = build_tokens(sess_b_turn0_hids)
+
+    # -- Round 1: initial routing (empty caches) --------------------------
+    # Route both sessions concurrently so load-balancing spreads them to
+    # different servers (with equal KV cache misses, ties are broken by load).
+    req_a0 = make_request(sess_a_turn0_tokens)
+    server_a, info_a0 = await router.get_next_server(req_a0)
+    # Do NOT finish req_a0 yet — keep its load active so session B avoids server_a
+
+    req_b0 = make_request(sess_b_tokens)
+    server_b, info_b0 = await router.get_next_server(req_b0)
+
+    # Now finish both and populate caches
+    await router.finish_request(req_a0)
+    await router.finish_request(req_b0)
+    router._server_state[server_a].add_blocks(info_a0["block_hashes"][0])
+    router._server_state[server_b].add_blocks(info_b0["block_hashes"][0])
+
+    # Sanity: two sessions should land on different servers
+    assert server_a != server_b, "Disjoint sessions should land on different servers"
+
+    # Verify block hashes are disjoint between sessions
+    blocks_a = set(info_a0["block_hashes"][0])
+    blocks_b = set(info_b0["block_hashes"][0])
+    assert blocks_a.isdisjoint(
+        blocks_b), "Different sessions must not share block hashes"
+
+    # -- Round 2: turn 1 of session A (prefix extends turn 0) ------------
+    req_a1 = make_request(sess_a_turn1_tokens)
+    server_a1, info_a1 = await router.get_next_server(req_a1)
+    await router.finish_request(req_a1)
+
+    assert server_a1 == server_a, (
+        f"Turn 1 must route to the same server as turn 0 ({server_a}) "
+        f"due to KV cache prefix hit, but got {server_a1}. "
+        f"Matches: {info_a1['matches']}")
+
+    # The match count on server_a must equal the prefix overlap
+    server_a_idx = list(router._server_state.keys()).index(server_a)
+    expected_prefix_match = len(sess_a_turn0_hids) * tokens_per_block
+    assert info_a1["matches"][server_a_idx] == expected_prefix_match, (
+        f"Expected {expected_prefix_match} matched tokens on server_a, "
+        f"got {info_a1['matches'][server_a_idx]}")
+
+    # Update server_a cache with new blocks from turn 1
+    router._server_state[server_a].add_blocks(info_a1["block_hashes"][0])
+
+    # -- Round 3: turn 2 of session A (prefix extends turn 1) ------------
+    req_a2 = make_request(sess_a_turn2_tokens)
+    server_a2, info_a2 = await router.get_next_server(req_a2)
+    await router.finish_request(req_a2)
+
+    assert server_a2 == server_a, (
+        f"Turn 2 must route to the same server as turns 0-1 ({server_a}) "
+        f"due to KV cache prefix hit, but got {server_a2}. "
+        f"Matches: {info_a2['matches']}")
+
+    # Turn 2 should match all of turn 0 + turn 1 prefix blocks
+    expected_full_match = (
+        len(sess_a_turn0_hids) + 2 +
+        len(sess_a_turn1_hids)  # turn0 + reply + turn1
+    ) * tokens_per_block
+    assert info_a2["matches"][server_a_idx] == expected_full_match, (
+        f"Expected {expected_full_match} matched tokens on turn 2, "
+        f"got {info_a2['matches'][server_a_idx]}")
+
+    # -- Verify session B still routes to its own server ------------------
+    req_b1 = make_request(sess_b_tokens)
+    server_b1, info_b1 = await router.get_next_server(req_b1)
+    await router.finish_request(req_b1)
+
+    assert server_b1 == server_b, (
+        f"Session B should route to its original server ({server_b}), "
+        f"but got {server_b1}")
+
+
 def test_create_router(servers):
     default_router = create_router(None, servers)
     assert isinstance(default_router, RoundRobinRouter)