diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py
index 039e95655..a7d4fd0af 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py
@@ -145,37 +145,15 @@ def pad_text_embeddings_with_mask(
 
 
 def shard_rotary_emb_for_sp(emb):
-    """
-    Shard rotary embeddings [S, D] along sequence for SP.
-    If S is not divisible by SP degree, pad by repeating the last row.
-    """
-    # Sequence Parallelism: slice image RoPE to local shard if enabled
+    """Shard rotary embeddings [S, D] along the sequence for SP; non-divisible
+    lengths pad by repeating the last row (position labels, never attention
+    K/V, so the pad value only needs to stay finite)."""
     try:
-        from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.parallel_state import (
-            get_sp_parallel_rank,
-            get_sp_world_size,
-        )
+        from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.sp_shard_utils import shard_seq
 
-        sp_world_size = get_sp_world_size()
+        return shard_seq(emb, dim=0, pad_mode="repeat_last")[0]
     except Exception:
-        sp_world_size = 1
-    seq_len = emb.shape[0]
-    if seq_len % sp_world_size != 0:
-        pad_len = sp_world_size - (seq_len % sp_world_size)
-        pad = emb[-1:].repeat(pad_len, 1)
-        emb = torch.cat([emb, pad], dim=0)
-    if sp_world_size > 1:
-        try:
-            rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
-        except Exception:
-            rank = 0
-        seq_len = emb.shape[0]
-        local_len = seq_len // sp_world_size
-        start = rank * local_len
-        end = start + local_len
-        emb = emb[start:end]
-        return emb
-    else:
+        # Distributed state not initialized (single-process utilities).
         return emb
 
 
@@ -543,18 +521,15 @@ class PipelineConfig:
             return latents, False
         time_dim = latents.shape[2]
 
-        # Pad to next multiple of SP degree if needed
+        # Zero-padding a non-divisible time dim would enter self-attention
+        # unmasked (video models pass no attn_mask) and corrupt real tokens;
+        # keep such shapes unsharded until models consume the sp_shard meta.
         if time_dim > 0 and time_dim % sp_world_size != 0:
-            logger.debug(
-                "Padding latents to next multiple of SP degree, performance is sub-optimal"
+            logger.warning_once(
+                f"Latent time dim {time_dim} is not divisible by SP degree "
+                f"{sp_world_size}; skipping sequence shard for correctness."
             )
-            pad_len = sp_world_size - (time_dim % sp_world_size)
-            pad = torch.zeros(
-                (*latents.shape[:2], pad_len, *latents.shape[3:]),
-                dtype=latents.dtype,
-                device=latents.device,
-            )
-            latents = torch.cat([latents, pad], dim=2)
+            return latents, False
 
         assert latents.shape[2] % sp_world_size == 0
         sharded_tensor = rearrange(
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/sp_shard_utils.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/sp_shard_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b589798ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/sp_shard_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""Unified sequence-parallel shard / pad / gather helpers.
+
+Layout invariant: padding always sits at the end of the LAST rank's local
+chunk, so the ulysses-gathered sequence carries one contiguous pad block at its
+global tail. `tail_attn_meta` then lets attention skip that block for free
+(the pad becomes its own varlen segment - no repacking, no mask compute).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.communication_op import (
+    sequence_model_parallel_all_gather,
+)
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.parallel_state import (
+    get_ring_parallel_world_size,
+    get_sp_parallel_rank,
+    get_sp_world_size,
+)
+
+# Text shorter than this stays replicated instead of SP-sharded (see
+# plan_text_strategy). 0 = always shard when legal; H100 bench showed sharding
+# wins from trivial lengths on, so the knob exists only as an escape hatch.
+_TEXT_SHARD_MIN = int(os.environ.get("SGLANG_SP_TEXT_SHARD_MIN", "0"))
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class SpShard:
+    """Facts of one tail-padded even shard, shared by tensors of that stream."""
+
+    orig_len: int  # real tokens (global)
+    local_len: int  # per-rank chunk length (equal on every rank)
+    num_pad: int  # pad tokens, all at the last rank's local tail
+    sp_size: int
+    sp_rank: int
+
+    @property
+    def local_pad(self) -> int:
+        """Pad rows inside THIS rank's chunk (tail rows of the last rank)."""
+        return self.num_pad if self.sp_rank == self.sp_size - 1 else 0
+
+    @property
+    def local_real_len(self) -> int:
+        return self.local_len - self.local_pad
+
+
+def build_shard_plan(seq_len: int) -> SpShard:
+    """Shard math only; tensors are sliced separately via `shard_like`."""
+    sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
+    if sp_size <= 1:
+        return SpShard(seq_len, seq_len, 0, 1, 0)
+    local_len = (seq_len + sp_size - 1) // sp_size
+    return SpShard(
+        orig_len=seq_len,
+        local_len=local_len,
+        num_pad=local_len * sp_size - seq_len,
+        sp_size=sp_size,
+        sp_rank=get_sp_parallel_rank(),
+    )
+
+
+def shard_like(
+    x: torch.Tensor, shard: SpShard, dim: int = 1, pad_mode: str = "zeros"
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Apply a planned shard to one tensor (RoPE caches use the same plan as
+    hidden states so their chunks stay aligned)."""
+    if shard.sp_size <= 1:
+        return x
+    if shard.num_pad > 0:
+        if pad_mode == "repeat_last":
+            pad = x.narrow(dim, x.shape[dim] - 1, 1)
+            pad = pad.expand(
+                *[shard.num_pad if i == dim else -1 for i in range(x.dim())]
+            )
+            x = torch.cat([x, pad], dim=dim)
+        else:
+            # F.pad pads dims last-to-first: (left, right) pairs from dim -1.
+            pads = [0, 0] * (x.dim() - 1 - dim) + [0, shard.num_pad]
+            x = F.pad(x, pads)
+    return x.narrow(dim, shard.sp_rank * shard.local_len, shard.local_len)
+
+
+def shard_seq(
+    x: torch.Tensor, dim: int = 1, pad_mode: str = "zeros"
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, SpShard]:
+    """
+    mode:
+        zeroes: pad with zeroes at tail
+        repeat_last: repeat the last token, only for rotary embedding
+    """
+    shard = build_shard_plan(x.shape[dim])
+    return shard_like(x, shard, dim=dim, pad_mode=pad_mode), shard
+
+
+def gather_seq(local: torch.Tensor, orig_len: int, dim: int = 1) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """All-gather an SP-sharded sequence and trim the tail padding"""
+    if get_sp_world_size() <= 1:
+        return local
+    full = sequence_model_parallel_all_gather(local.contiguous(), dim=dim)
+    if full.shape[dim] > orig_len:
+        full = full.narrow(dim, 0, orig_len)
+    return full
+
+
+def shard_seq_prefix(
+    x: torch.Tensor, prefix_len: int, shard: SpShard, dim: int = 0
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Shard only the leading ``prefix_len`` rows (e.g. the text segment of a
+    joint RoPE cache) with an existing plan; the remainder is kept as-is."""
+    rest = x.shape[dim] - prefix_len
+    return torch.cat(
+        [
+            shard_like(x.narrow(dim, 0, prefix_len), shard, dim=dim),
+            x.narrow(dim, prefix_len, rest),
+        ],
+        dim=dim,
+    )
+
+
+def join_seqs(
+    prefix: torch.Tensor, body: torch.Tensor, local_pad: int, dim: int = 1
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Concatenate local sharded ``[prefix (txt tokens, padding tokens), body (img tokens)]`` for joint attention, while relocating the
+     prefix's ``local_pad`` tail rows behind the body.
+
+    Why leave the padding at tail: the shard pads the *text* chunk, but the local joint layout is
+    [text, image].
+
+    In naive implementation, after the ulysses all-to-all, that pad would sit mid-sequence (of last rank)
+    ([... txt_last, PAD, img_last]), which required further mem copy (for the padding tokens), inefficient in this case
+
+    With the pad relocated behind the image, the padding forms one global-tail block that the zero-copy varlen
+    path (tail_attn_meta, implemented in USPAttention.forward) skips for free
+    """
+    if local_pad > 0:
+        real = prefix.shape[dim] - local_pad
+        return torch.cat(
+            [
+                # txt tokens
+                prefix.narrow(dim, 0, real),
+                body,
+                # leave the padding at global-tail
+                prefix.narrow(dim, real, local_pad),
+            ],
+            dim=dim,
+        )
+    return torch.cat([prefix, body], dim=dim)
+
+
+def split_seqs(
+    joint: torch.Tensor, prefix_len: int, local_pad: int, dim: int = 1
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    """Inverse of ``join_seqs``: recover ``(prefix, body)`` from the joint output, with the pad rows rejoining the prefix tail so the residual text
+    stream keeps its per-rank shape.
+
+     ([... txt_last, PAD, img_last]) -> prefix (txt + pad), body (img)
+    """
+    total = joint.shape[dim]
+    if local_pad > 0:
+        real = prefix_len - local_pad
+        body_end = total - local_pad
+        prefix = torch.cat(
+            [joint.narrow(dim, 0, real), joint.narrow(dim, body_end, local_pad)],
+            dim=dim,
+        )
+        return prefix, joint.narrow(dim, real, body_end - real)
+    return (
+        joint.narrow(dim, 0, prefix_len),
+        joint.narrow(dim, prefix_len, total - prefix_len),
+    )
+
+
+def should_shard_text(txt_len: int) -> bool:
+    """True when the joint-attention text stream should be SP-sharded here
+    (see plan_text_strategy for the policy)."""
+    return get_sp_world_size() > 1 and plan_text_strategy(txt_len) == "shard"
+
+
+def tail_attn_meta(
+    shard: SpShard,
+    batch_size: int,
+    device: torch.device,
+    image_seq_len: int = 0,
+) -> dict | None:
+    """Per-request attention meta for a tail-padded shard: `cu_seqlens_tail`
+    splits each batch row into [valid | pad] varlen segments over the gathered
+    layout, so USPAttention runs varlen FA on the padded q/k/v with zero
+    repacking. Built once per request, reused by every block."""
+    if shard.sp_size <= 1 or shard.num_pad == 0:
+        return None
+    seq = shard.sp_size * (shard.local_len + image_seq_len)
+    valid = seq - shard.num_pad
+    row = torch.tensor([valid, shard.num_pad], dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+    seglens = row.repeat(batch_size)
+    cu_seqlens = torch.zeros(2 * batch_size + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+    cu_seqlens[1:] = torch.cumsum(seglens, dim=0)
+    return {
+        "pad_start": valid,
+        "pad_end": seq,
+        "local_pad": shard.local_pad,
+        "cu_seqlens_tail": cu_seqlens,
+        "max_seqlen_tail": max(valid, shard.num_pad),
+    }
+
+
+def plan_text_strategy(txt_len: int) -> str:
+    """Choose "shard" or "replicate" for the joint-attention text stream.
+
+    Prefer "shard" by default. for small sequence (shorter than SGLANG_SP_TEXT_SHARD_MIN), choose "replicate" for better performance
+
+    """
+    sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
+    if sp_size <= 1:
+        return "replicate"
+    if txt_len % sp_size != 0 and get_ring_parallel_world_size() > 1:
+        return "replicate"
+    if txt_len < _TEXT_SHARD_MIN:
+        return "replicate"
+    return "shard"
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/layers/attention/layer.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/layers/attention/layer.py
index 0039b4935..24e82377a 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/layers/attention/layer.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/layers/attention/layer.py
@@ -533,7 +533,21 @@ class USPAttention(nn.Module):
         effective_skip_sp = (
             self.skip_sequence_parallel or skip_sequence_parallel_override
         )
-        if attn_mask is not None:
+        # Tail-pad meta alone (sp_shard.tail_attn_meta; mask derivable from the
+        # pad span) also opts into the masked SP branch. gap_* = legacy alias.
+        meta_pad_start = meta_pad_end = None
+        if attn_mask_meta is not None:
+            meta_pad_start = attn_mask_meta.get(
+                "pad_start", attn_mask_meta.get("gap_start")
+            )
+            meta_pad_end = attn_mask_meta.get("pad_end", attn_mask_meta.get("gap_end"))
+        meta_only_pad = (
+            attn_mask is None
+            and meta_pad_start is not None
+            and not effective_skip_sp
+            and get_sequence_parallel_world_size() > 1
+        )
+        if attn_mask is not None or meta_only_pad:
 
             def _prepare_sdpa_mask(
                 mask: torch.Tensor, *, dtype: torch.dtype, device: torch.device
@@ -626,7 +640,7 @@ class USPAttention(nn.Module):
                 raise NotImplementedError(
                     "USPAttention masked path does not support ring parallelism yet."
                 )
-            if attn_mask.dim() != 2:
+            if attn_mask is not None and attn_mask.dim() != 2:
                 raise NotImplementedError(
                     "USPAttention masked SP path currently expects a [B, S_local] key mask."
                 )
@@ -637,26 +651,46 @@ class USPAttention(nn.Module):
                 k = _usp_input_all_to_all(k, head_dim=2)
                 v = _usp_input_all_to_all(v, head_dim=2)
 
-            gap_start = None
-            gap_end = None
-            if attn_mask_meta is not None:
-                gap_start = attn_mask_meta.get("gap_start")
-                gap_end = attn_mask_meta.get("gap_end")
             if (
                 _VARLEN_FA_ENABLED
                 and self.backend == AttentionBackendEnum.FA
-                and gap_start is not None
-                and gap_end is not None
-                and gap_end > gap_start
+                and meta_pad_start is not None
+                and meta_pad_end is not None
+                and meta_pad_end > meta_pad_start
                 and q.device.type == "cuda"
                 and q.dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16)
             ):
                 bs, seq = q.shape[0], q.shape[1]
-                assert 0 <= gap_start < gap_end <= seq
-                valid_seq = seq - (gap_end - gap_start)
-                q_dense = torch.cat([q[:, :gap_start], q[:, gap_end:]], dim=1)
-                k_dense = torch.cat([k[:, :gap_start], k[:, gap_end:]], dim=1)
-                v_dense = torch.cat([v[:, :gap_start], v[:, gap_end:]], dim=1)
+                assert 0 <= meta_pad_start < meta_pad_end <= seq
+                cu_tail = attn_mask_meta.get("cu_seqlens_tail")
+                if cu_tail is not None and meta_pad_end == seq:
+                    # Zero-copy tail path: run varlen FA straight over the
+                    # padded layout, each row split into [valid | pad] segments
+                    # (contiguous reshapes only, no repacking).
+                    assert (
+                        cu_tail.numel() == 2 * bs + 1
+                    ), "cu_seqlens_tail does not match the batch size"
+                    out = flash_attn_varlen_func(
+                        q=q.reshape(bs * seq, *q.shape[2:]),
+                        k=k.reshape(bs * seq, *k.shape[2:]),
+                        v=v.reshape(bs * seq, *v.shape[2:]),
+                        cu_seqlens_q=cu_tail,
+                        cu_seqlens_k=cu_tail,
+                        max_seqlen_q=attn_mask_meta["max_seqlen_tail"],
+                        max_seqlen_k=attn_mask_meta["max_seqlen_tail"],
+                        softmax_scale=self.softmax_scale,
+                        causal=False,
+                        ver=_fa_backend.fa_ver,
+                    ).reshape(bs, seq, *q.shape[2:])
+                    # Match the packed paths: masked query rows read as zeros.
+                    out[:, meta_pad_start:].zero_()
+                    if sp_size > 1:
+                        out = _usp_output_all_to_all(out, head_dim=2)
+                    return out
+                valid_seq = seq - (meta_pad_end - meta_pad_start)
+                q_dense = torch.cat([q[:, :meta_pad_start], q[:, meta_pad_end:]], dim=1)
+                k_dense = torch.cat([k[:, :meta_pad_start], k[:, meta_pad_end:]], dim=1)
+                v_dense = torch.cat([v[:, :meta_pad_start], v[:, meta_pad_end:]], dim=1)
                 cu_seqlens = torch.arange(
                     0,
                     (bs + 1) * valid_seq,
@@ -677,10 +711,17 @@ class USPAttention(nn.Module):
                     ver=_fa_backend.fa_ver,
                 ).reshape(bs, valid_seq, *q.shape[2:])
                 gap_out = out_dense.new_zeros(
-                    bs, gap_end - gap_start, out_dense.shape[2], out_dense.shape[3]
+                    bs,
+                    meta_pad_end - meta_pad_start,
+                    out_dense.shape[2],
+                    out_dense.shape[3],
                 )
                 out = torch.cat(
-                    [out_dense[:, :gap_start], gap_out, out_dense[:, gap_start:]],
+                    [
+                        out_dense[:, :meta_pad_start],
+                        gap_out,
+                        out_dense[:, meta_pad_start:],
+                    ],
                     dim=1,
                 )
                 if sp_size > 1:
@@ -691,9 +732,17 @@ class USPAttention(nn.Module):
             # attn_mask is inconsistent across SP ranks (None on some, Tensor on
             # others), which causes all_gather participant mismatch. Upstream
             # mask builders must ensure all ranks produce the same mask type.
-            gathered_mask = sequence_model_parallel_all_gather(
-                attn_mask.contiguous(), dim=1
-            )
+            if attn_mask is None:
+                # Meta-only tail-pad caller on a non-FA fallback: the gathered
+                # mask is fully determined by the pad span, no collective needed.
+                gathered_mask = torch.ones(
+                    q.shape[0], q.shape[1], dtype=torch.bool, device=q.device
+                )
+                gathered_mask[:, meta_pad_start:meta_pad_end] = False
+            else:
+                gathered_mask = sequence_model_parallel_all_gather(
+                    attn_mask.contiguous(), dim=1
+                )
             if (
                 _VARLEN_FA_ENABLED
                 and self.backend == AttentionBackendEnum.FA
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/ernie_image.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/ernie_image.py
index 082f11ed8..5881220bf 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/ernie_image.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/ernie_image.py
@@ -134,10 +134,14 @@ class ErnieImageSelfAttention(nn.Module):
             self.norm_q = RMSNorm(head_dim, eps=eps)
             self.norm_k = RMSNorm(head_dim, eps=eps)
 
+        # The joint [image, text] stream is fully replicated, so the ulysses
+        # all-to-all would wrongly treat it as sharded and duplicate it. Skip
+        # SP until the stream is sharded (sp_shard + num_replicated_suffix).
         self.attn = USPAttention(
             num_heads=self.num_local_heads,
             head_size=head_dim,
             prefix=f"{prefix}.attn",
+            skip_sequence_parallel=True,
         )
 
     def forward(
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux.py
index b0a1c85dd..793cf0338 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux.py
@@ -30,10 +30,17 @@ from torch.nn import LayerNorm as LayerNorm
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.models.dits.flux import FluxConfig
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed import (
     divide,
-    get_sp_parallel_rank,
-    get_sp_world_size,
     get_tp_world_size,
 )
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.sp_shard_utils import (
+    build_shard_plan,
+    join_seqs,
+    shard_like,
+    shard_seq_prefix,
+    should_shard_text,
+    split_seqs,
+    tail_attn_meta,
+)
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.attention import USPAttention
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.layernorm import (
     RMSNorm,
@@ -69,99 +76,6 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.logging_utils import init_logger
 logger = init_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
-def _shard_text_for_sp(
-    encoder_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-    freqs_cis: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-    image_seq_len: int,
-    num_txt_tokens: int,
-) -> Tuple[
-    torch.Tensor,
-    Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-    int,
-    Optional[torch.Tensor],
-    Optional[Dict[str, int]],
-]:
-    sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
-    num_replicated_prefix = num_txt_tokens
-    if sp_size == 1:
-        return encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis, num_replicated_prefix, None, None
-
-    sp_rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
-    local_txt_tokens = (num_txt_tokens + sp_size - 1) // sp_size
-    padded_txt_tokens = local_txt_tokens * sp_size
-    num_pad_tokens = padded_txt_tokens - num_txt_tokens
-
-    if num_pad_tokens > 0:
-        pad_hidden_states = encoder_hidden_states.new_zeros(
-            encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-            num_pad_tokens,
-            encoder_hidden_states.shape[2],
-        )
-        encoder_hidden_states = torch.cat(
-            [encoder_hidden_states, pad_hidden_states], dim=1
-        )
-
-    encoder_hidden_states = torch.chunk(encoder_hidden_states, sp_size, dim=1)[sp_rank]
-    if freqs_cis is not None:
-        cos, sin = freqs_cis
-        txt_cos = cos[:num_txt_tokens]
-        txt_sin = sin[:num_txt_tokens]
-        if num_pad_tokens > 0:
-            pad_cos = txt_cos.new_ones(num_pad_tokens, txt_cos.shape[1])
-            pad_sin = txt_sin.new_zeros(num_pad_tokens, txt_sin.shape[1])
-            txt_cos = torch.cat([txt_cos, pad_cos], dim=0)
-            txt_sin = torch.cat([txt_sin, pad_sin], dim=0)
-        freqs_cis = (
-            torch.cat(
-                [
-                    torch.chunk(txt_cos, sp_size, dim=0)[sp_rank],
-                    cos[num_txt_tokens:],
-                ],
-                dim=0,
-            ),
-            torch.cat(
-                [
-                    torch.chunk(txt_sin, sp_size, dim=0)[sp_rank],
-                    sin[num_txt_tokens:],
-                ],
-                dim=0,
-            ),
-        )
-
-    num_replicated_prefix = 0
-    if num_pad_tokens == 0:
-        return encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis, num_replicated_prefix, None, None
-
-    txt_start = sp_rank * local_txt_tokens
-    valid_txt_tokens = min(local_txt_tokens, max(num_txt_tokens - txt_start, 0))
-    text_mask = torch.zeros(
-        encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-        local_txt_tokens,
-        dtype=torch.bool,
-        device=encoder_hidden_states.device,
-    )
-    text_mask[:, :valid_txt_tokens] = True
-    image_mask = torch.ones(
-        encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-        image_seq_len,
-        dtype=torch.bool,
-        device=encoder_hidden_states.device,
-    )
-    return (
-        encoder_hidden_states,
-        freqs_cis,
-        num_replicated_prefix,
-        torch.cat([text_mask, image_mask], dim=1),
-        {
-            "gap_start": (sp_size - 1) * (local_txt_tokens + image_seq_len)
-            + local_txt_tokens
-            - num_pad_tokens,
-            "gap_end": (sp_size - 1) * (local_txt_tokens + image_seq_len)
-            + local_txt_tokens,
-        },
-    )
-
-
 try:
     from nunchaku.models.attention import NunchakuFeedForward  # type: ignore[import]
     from nunchaku.models.normalization import (  # type: ignore[import]
@@ -600,9 +514,12 @@ class FluxAttention(torch.nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
                 allow_inplace=True,
             )
 
-            query = torch.cat([encoder_query, query], dim=1)
-            key = torch.cat([encoder_key, key], dim=1)
-            value = torch.cat([encoder_value, value], dim=1)
+            # join_seqs relocates any SP text tail-pad behind the image (see
+            # sp_shard.join_seqs for why).
+            sp_txt_pad = (attn_mask_meta or {}).get("local_pad", 0)
+            query = join_seqs(encoder_query, query, sp_txt_pad)
+            key = join_seqs(encoder_key, key, sp_txt_pad)
+            value = join_seqs(encoder_value, value, sp_txt_pad)
         else:
             query, key = apply_qk_norm_with_optional_rope(
                 q=query,
@@ -627,12 +544,8 @@ class FluxAttention(torch.nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
         x = x.to(query.dtype)
 
         if encoder_hidden_states is not None:
-            encoder_hidden_states, x = x.split_with_sizes(
-                [
-                    encoder_hidden_states.shape[1],
-                    x.shape[1] - encoder_hidden_states.shape[1],
-                ],
-                dim=1,
+            encoder_hidden_states, x = split_seqs(
+                x, encoder_hidden_states.shape[1], sp_txt_pad
             )
             if not self.pre_only:
                 x, _ = self.to_out[0](x)
@@ -775,11 +688,16 @@ class FluxSingleTransformerBlock(nn.Module):
         num_replicated_prefix: int = 0,
     ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
         text_seq_len = encoder_hidden_states.shape[1]
-        hidden_states = torch.cat([encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states], dim=1)
+        joint_attention_kwargs = joint_attention_kwargs or {}
+        # join_seqs relocates any SP text tail-pad behind the image; the caller
+        # hands single blocks a RoPE cache reordered the same way.
+        sp_txt_pad = (joint_attention_kwargs.get("attn_mask_meta") or {}).get(
+            "local_pad", 0
+        )
+        hidden_states = join_seqs(encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states, sp_txt_pad)
 
         residual = hidden_states
         norm_hidden_states, gate = self.norm(hidden_states, emb=temb)
-        joint_attention_kwargs = joint_attention_kwargs or {}
 
         if self.use_nunchaku_structure:
             if _nunchaku_fused_ops_available:
@@ -824,9 +742,8 @@ class FluxSingleTransformerBlock(nn.Module):
         if hidden_states.dtype == torch.float16:
             hidden_states = hidden_states.clip(-65504, 65504)
 
-        encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states = (
-            hidden_states[:, :text_seq_len],
-            hidden_states[:, text_seq_len:],
+        encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states = split_seqs(
+            hidden_states, text_seq_len, sp_txt_pad
         )
         return encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states
 
@@ -1186,24 +1103,41 @@ class FluxTransformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
         num_txt_tokens = encoder_hidden_states.shape[1]
         encoder_hidden_states, _ = self.context_embedder(encoder_hidden_states)
 
-        (
-            encoder_hidden_states,
-            freqs_cis,
-            num_replicated_prefix,
-            attn_mask,
-            attn_mask_meta,
-        ) = _shard_text_for_sp(
-            encoder_hidden_states,
-            freqs_cis,
-            hidden_states.shape[1],
-            num_txt_tokens,
-        )
-        if attn_mask is not None:
-            joint_attention_kwargs = (
-                joint_attention_kwargs.copy() if joint_attention_kwargs else {}
+        # Shard the replicated text stream across SP ranks (image latents are
+        # already sharded); non-divisible lengths tail-pad the last rank and the
+        # per-request tail meta lets attention skip the pad for free.
+        num_replicated_prefix = num_txt_tokens
+        singles_freqs_cis = freqs_cis
+        if should_shard_text(num_txt_tokens):
+            txt_shard = build_shard_plan(num_txt_tokens)
+            encoder_hidden_states = shard_like(encoder_hidden_states, txt_shard)
+            if freqs_cis is not None:
+                cos, sin = freqs_cis
+                cos = shard_seq_prefix(cos, num_txt_tokens, txt_shard)
+                sin = shard_seq_prefix(sin, num_txt_tokens, txt_shard)
+                freqs_cis = (cos, sin)
+                singles_freqs_cis = freqs_cis
+            num_replicated_prefix = 0
+            tail_meta = tail_attn_meta(
+                txt_shard,
+                encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
+                hidden_states.device,
+                image_seq_len=hidden_states.shape[1],
             )
-            joint_attention_kwargs["attn_mask"] = attn_mask
-            joint_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = attn_mask_meta
+            if tail_meta is not None:
+                joint_attention_kwargs = (
+                    joint_attention_kwargs.copy() if joint_attention_kwargs else {}
+                )
+                joint_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = tail_meta
+                # Single blocks apply RoPE on the relocated [txt_real, img, pad]
+                # layout, so hand them a cache reordered the same way.
+                if freqs_cis is not None:
+                    t_loc = txt_shard.local_len
+                    pad = txt_shard.local_pad
+                    singles_freqs_cis = (
+                        join_seqs(cos[:t_loc], cos[t_loc:], pad, dim=0),
+                        join_seqs(sin[:t_loc], sin[t_loc:], pad, dim=0),
+                    )
 
         if (
             joint_attention_kwargs is not None
@@ -1229,7 +1163,7 @@ class FluxTransformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
                 hidden_states=hidden_states,
                 encoder_hidden_states=encoder_hidden_states,
                 temb=temb,
-                freqs_cis=freqs_cis,
+                freqs_cis=singles_freqs_cis,
                 joint_attention_kwargs=joint_attention_kwargs,
                 num_replicated_prefix=num_replicated_prefix,
             )
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux_2.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux_2.py
index 26f8877f7..1409c37ae 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux_2.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/flux_2.py
@@ -23,10 +23,17 @@ from diffusers.models.normalization import AdaLayerNormContinuous
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.models.dits.flux import FluxConfig
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed import (
     divide,
-    get_sp_parallel_rank,
-    get_sp_world_size,
     get_tp_world_size,
 )
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.sp_shard_utils import (
+    build_shard_plan,
+    join_seqs,
+    shard_like,
+    shard_seq_prefix,
+    should_shard_text,
+    split_seqs,
+    tail_attn_meta,
+)
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.attention import USPAttention
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.layernorm import (
     RMSNorm,
@@ -60,115 +67,6 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.logging_utils import init_logger
 logger = init_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
-def _shard_text_for_sp(
-    encoder_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-    freqs_cis: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-    image_seq_len: int,
-    num_txt_tokens: int,
-) -> Tuple[
-    torch.Tensor,
-    Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-    int,
-    int,
-    Optional[torch.Tensor],
-    Optional[Dict[str, int]],
-]:
-    sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
-    num_replicated_prefix = num_txt_tokens
-    if sp_size == 1:
-        return (
-            encoder_hidden_states,
-            freqs_cis,
-            num_replicated_prefix,
-            num_txt_tokens,
-            None,
-            None,
-        )
-
-    sp_rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
-    local_txt_tokens = (num_txt_tokens + sp_size - 1) // sp_size
-    padded_txt_tokens = local_txt_tokens * sp_size
-    num_pad_tokens = padded_txt_tokens - num_txt_tokens
-
-    if num_pad_tokens > 0:
-        pad_hidden_states = encoder_hidden_states.new_zeros(
-            encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-            num_pad_tokens,
-            encoder_hidden_states.shape[2],
-        )
-        encoder_hidden_states = torch.cat(
-            [encoder_hidden_states, pad_hidden_states], dim=1
-        )
-
-    encoder_hidden_states = torch.chunk(encoder_hidden_states, sp_size, dim=1)[sp_rank]
-    if freqs_cis is not None:
-        cos, sin = freqs_cis
-        txt_cos = cos[:num_txt_tokens]
-        txt_sin = sin[:num_txt_tokens]
-        if num_pad_tokens > 0:
-            pad_cos = txt_cos.new_ones(num_pad_tokens, txt_cos.shape[1])
-            pad_sin = txt_sin.new_zeros(num_pad_tokens, txt_sin.shape[1])
-            txt_cos = torch.cat([txt_cos, pad_cos], dim=0)
-            txt_sin = torch.cat([txt_sin, pad_sin], dim=0)
-        freqs_cis = (
-            torch.cat(
-                [
-                    torch.chunk(txt_cos, sp_size, dim=0)[sp_rank],
-                    cos[num_txt_tokens:],
-                ],
-                dim=0,
-            ),
-            torch.cat(
-                [
-                    torch.chunk(txt_sin, sp_size, dim=0)[sp_rank],
-                    sin[num_txt_tokens:],
-                ],
-                dim=0,
-            ),
-        )
-
-    num_replicated_prefix = 0
-    if num_pad_tokens == 0:
-        return (
-            encoder_hidden_states,
-            freqs_cis,
-            num_replicated_prefix,
-            local_txt_tokens,
-            None,
-            None,
-        )
-
-    txt_start = sp_rank * local_txt_tokens
-    valid_txt_tokens = min(local_txt_tokens, max(num_txt_tokens - txt_start, 0))
-    text_mask = torch.zeros(
-        encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-        local_txt_tokens,
-        dtype=torch.bool,
-        device=encoder_hidden_states.device,
-    )
-    text_mask[:, :valid_txt_tokens] = True
-    image_mask = torch.ones(
-        encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-        image_seq_len,
-        dtype=torch.bool,
-        device=encoder_hidden_states.device,
-    )
-    return (
-        encoder_hidden_states,
-        freqs_cis,
-        num_replicated_prefix,
-        local_txt_tokens,
-        torch.cat([text_mask, image_mask], dim=1),
-        {
-            "gap_start": (sp_size - 1) * (local_txt_tokens + image_seq_len)
-            + local_txt_tokens
-            - num_pad_tokens,
-            "gap_end": (sp_size - 1) * (local_txt_tokens + image_seq_len)
-            + local_txt_tokens,
-        },
-    )
-
-
 def _get_qkv_projections(
     attn: "Flux2Attention", hidden_states, encoder_hidden_states=None
 ):
@@ -465,9 +363,12 @@ class Flux2Attention(torch.nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
                 allow_inplace=True,
             )
 
-            query = torch.cat([encoder_query, query], dim=1)
-            key = torch.cat([encoder_key, key], dim=1)
-            value = torch.cat([encoder_value, value], dim=1)
+            # join_seqs relocates any SP text tail-pad behind the image (see
+            # sp_shard.join_seqs for why).
+            sp_txt_pad = (attn_mask_meta or {}).get("local_pad", 0)
+            query = join_seqs(encoder_query, query, sp_txt_pad)
+            key = join_seqs(encoder_key, key, sp_txt_pad)
+            value = join_seqs(encoder_value, value, sp_txt_pad)
         else:
             query, key = apply_qk_norm_with_optional_rope(
                 q=query,
@@ -493,12 +394,8 @@ class Flux2Attention(torch.nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
         hidden_states = hidden_states.to(query.dtype)
 
         if encoder_hidden_states is not None:
-            encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states = hidden_states.split_with_sizes(
-                [
-                    encoder_hidden_states.shape[1],
-                    hidden_states.shape[1] - encoder_hidden_states.shape[1],
-                ],
-                dim=1,
+            encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states = split_seqs(
+                hidden_states, encoder_hidden_states.shape[1], sp_txt_pad
             )
             encoder_hidden_states, _ = self.to_add_out(encoder_hidden_states)
 
@@ -1196,25 +1093,43 @@ class Flux2Transformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
         hidden_states, _ = self.x_embedder(hidden_states)
         encoder_hidden_states, _ = self.context_embedder(encoder_hidden_states)
 
-        (
-            encoder_hidden_states,
-            freqs_cis,
-            num_replicated_prefix,
-            num_txt_tokens,
-            attn_mask,
-            attn_mask_meta,
-        ) = _shard_text_for_sp(
-            encoder_hidden_states,
-            freqs_cis,
-            hidden_states.shape[1],
-            num_txt_tokens,
-        )
-        if attn_mask is not None:
-            joint_attention_kwargs = (
-                joint_attention_kwargs.copy() if joint_attention_kwargs else {}
+        # Shard the replicated text stream across SP ranks (image latents are
+        # already sharded); non-divisible lengths tail-pad the last rank and the
+        # per-request tail meta lets attention skip the pad for free.
+        num_replicated_prefix = num_txt_tokens
+        sp_txt_pad = 0
+        singles_freqs_cis = freqs_cis
+        if should_shard_text(num_txt_tokens):
+            txt_shard = build_shard_plan(num_txt_tokens)
+            encoder_hidden_states = shard_like(encoder_hidden_states, txt_shard)
+            if freqs_cis is not None:
+                cos, sin = freqs_cis
+                cos = shard_seq_prefix(cos, num_txt_tokens, txt_shard)
+                sin = shard_seq_prefix(sin, num_txt_tokens, txt_shard)
+                freqs_cis = (cos, sin)
+                singles_freqs_cis = freqs_cis
+            num_replicated_prefix = 0
+            num_txt_tokens = txt_shard.local_len
+            tail_meta = tail_attn_meta(
+                txt_shard,
+                encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
+                hidden_states.device,
+                image_seq_len=hidden_states.shape[1],
             )
-            joint_attention_kwargs["attn_mask"] = attn_mask
-            joint_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = attn_mask_meta
+            if tail_meta is not None:
+                joint_attention_kwargs = (
+                    joint_attention_kwargs.copy() if joint_attention_kwargs else {}
+                )
+                joint_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = tail_meta
+                sp_txt_pad = txt_shard.local_pad
+                # The single-stream trunk applies RoPE on the relocated
+                # [txt_real, img, pad] layout; reorder its cache to match.
+                if freqs_cis is not None:
+                    t_loc = txt_shard.local_len
+                    singles_freqs_cis = (
+                        join_seqs(cos[:t_loc], cos[t_loc:], sp_txt_pad, dim=0),
+                        join_seqs(sin[:t_loc], sin[t_loc:], sp_txt_pad, dim=0),
+                    )
 
         # 4. Double Stream Transformer Blocks
         for index_block, block in enumerate(self.transformer_blocks):
@@ -1227,8 +1142,11 @@ class Flux2Transformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
                 joint_attention_kwargs=joint_attention_kwargs,
                 num_replicated_prefix=num_replicated_prefix,
             )
-        # Concatenate text and image streams for single-block inference
-        hidden_states = torch.cat([encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states], dim=1)
+        # Concatenate text and image streams for single-block inference;
+        # join_seqs relocates any SP text tail-pad behind the image once for
+        # the whole trunk (see sp_shard.join_seqs for why).
+        txt_real = num_txt_tokens - sp_txt_pad
+        hidden_states = join_seqs(encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states, sp_txt_pad)
 
         # 5. Single Stream Transformer Blocks
         for index_block, block in enumerate(self.single_transformer_blocks):
@@ -1236,13 +1154,14 @@ class Flux2Transformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
                 hidden_states=hidden_states,
                 encoder_hidden_states=None,
                 temb_mod_params=single_stream_mod,
-                freqs_cis=freqs_cis,
+                freqs_cis=singles_freqs_cis,
                 joint_attention_kwargs=joint_attention_kwargs,
-                text_seq_len=num_txt_tokens,
+                text_seq_len=txt_real,
                 num_replicated_prefix=num_replicated_prefix,
             )
-        # Remove text tokens from concatenated stream
-        hidden_states = hidden_states[:, num_txt_tokens:, ...]
+        # Remove text (and any tail pad) from the concatenated stream
+        img_end = hidden_states.shape[1] - sp_txt_pad
+        hidden_states = hidden_states[:, txt_real:img_end, ...]
 
         # 6. Output layers
         hidden_states = self.norm_out(hidden_states, temb)
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/mova_video_dit.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/mova_video_dit.py
index 5a6a2ded9..fc0f112fb 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/mova_video_dit.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/mova_video_dit.py
@@ -153,13 +153,14 @@ class SelfAttention(nn.Module):
             softmax_scale=None,
         )
 
-    def forward(self, x, freqs):
+    def forward(self, x, freqs, attn_mask_meta=None):
         """
         Forward pass for self-attention.
 
         Args:
             x: Input tensor [B, S_local, D] - already sharded by SP when SP > 1
             freqs: RoPE frequencies [S_local, 1, head_dim] - should match x's sequence length
+            attn_mask_meta: sp_shard tail-pad meta; excludes SP padding from attention
 
         Returns:
             Output tensor [B, S_local, D]
@@ -189,8 +190,9 @@ class SelfAttention(nn.Module):
         k = rearrange(k, "b s (n d) -> b s n d", n=self.num_heads_per_rank)
         v = rearrange(v, "b s (n d) -> b s n d", n=self.num_heads_per_rank)
 
-        # USPAttention handles SP communication internally
-        out = self.attn(q, k, v)
+        # USPAttention handles SP communication internally; the tail meta keeps
+        # SP padding out of the softmax.
+        out = self.attn(q, k, v, attn_mask_meta=attn_mask_meta)
         out = rearrange(out, "b s n d -> b s (n d)")
 
         out, _ = self.o(out)
@@ -326,7 +328,7 @@ class DiTBlock(nn.Module):
         self.modulation = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(1, 6, dim) / dim**0.5)
         self.mlp_residual = MulAdd()
 
-    def forward(self, x, context, t_mod, freqs):
+    def forward(self, x, context, t_mod, freqs, attn_mask_meta=None):
         has_seq = len(t_mod.shape) == 4
         chunk_dim = 2 if has_seq else 1
         # msa: multi-head self-attention  mlp: multi-layer perceptron
@@ -347,7 +349,9 @@ class DiTBlock(nn.Module):
         # - layernorm(x) * (1 + scale_msa) + shift_msa
         input_x = self.norm1(x, shift_msa, scale_msa)
         # 2. torch.compile may fuse mlp_residual and self_attn_norm
-        x = self.mlp_residual(self.self_attn(input_x, freqs), gate_msa, x)
+        x = self.mlp_residual(
+            self.self_attn(input_x, freqs, attn_mask_meta=attn_mask_meta), gate_msa, x
+        )
         norm_x = self.self_attn_norm(x)
         # 3. Cross-attention, fuse:
         # - x = x + 1 * cross_output
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/qwen_image.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/qwen_image.py
index 68ef82384..e65e35de4 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/qwen_image.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/qwen_image.py
@@ -20,10 +20,16 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed import (
     get_tp_world_size,
 )
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.parallel_state import (
-    get_ring_parallel_world_size,
-    get_sp_parallel_rank,
     get_sp_world_size,
 )
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.sp_shard_utils import (
+    build_shard_plan,
+    join_seqs,
+    shard_like,
+    should_shard_text,
+    split_seqs,
+    tail_attn_meta,
+)
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.attention import (
     USPAttention,
     build_varlen_mask_meta,
@@ -80,99 +86,6 @@ def _local_seq_len(seq_len: int, sp_world_size: int) -> int:
     return padded_len // sp_world_size
 
 
-def _shard_text_for_sp(
-    encoder_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-    freqs_cis: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]]]:
-    """Shard the replicated text stream evenly across SP ranks.
-
-    The image latents are already sharded by the pipeline while the text stream
-    is replicated. This splits the text embeddings (and their RoPE cache) so each
-    rank keeps ``1/sp_size`` of the text tokens, making the joint attention fully
-    sequence-sharded (``num_replicated_prefix=0``). Callers must ensure the text
-    length divides evenly across SP ranks.
-    """
-    sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
-    if sp_size == 1:
-        return encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis
-
-    sp_rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
-    encoder_hidden_states = torch.chunk(encoder_hidden_states, sp_size, dim=1)[sp_rank]
-
-    if freqs_cis is not None:
-        img_cache, txt_cache = freqs_cis
-        txt_cache = torch.chunk(txt_cache, sp_size, dim=0)[sp_rank]
-        freqs_cis = (img_cache, txt_cache)
-
-    return encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis
-
-
-def _pad_shard_text_for_sp_varlen(
-    encoder_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-    freqs_cis: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-    image_seq_len: int,
-) -> Tuple[
-    torch.Tensor,
-    Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]],
-    torch.Tensor,
-    Dict[str, int],
-]:
-    """Right-pad a non-divisible replicated text stream to a multiple of the SP
-    world size and shard it evenly across ranks, so the joint ``[text, image]``
-    sequence is fully sequence-parallel.
-
-    The pad tokens occupy a single contiguous block at the tail of the last
-    rank's text chunk. The returned ``attn_mask`` (joint ``[text, image]``
-    validity mask) and ``attn_mask_meta`` (``gap_start`` / ``gap_end``) describe
-    that block so ``USPAttention`` excludes it from attention via the varlen
-    kernel.
-
-    Callers must ensure the text length is NOT divisible by the SP world size;
-    the evenly-divisible case is a plain ``_shard_text_for_sp`` with no mask.
-
-    Returns ``(encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis, attn_mask, attn_mask_meta)``.
-    """
-    sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
-    t_real = encoder_hidden_states.shape[1]
-    num_pad = sp_size - t_real % sp_size
-
-    encoder_hidden_states = F.pad(encoder_hidden_states, (0, 0, 0, num_pad))
-    if freqs_cis is not None:
-        img_cache, txt_cache = freqs_cis
-        txt_cache = F.pad(txt_cache, (0, 0, 0, num_pad))
-        freqs_cis = (img_cache, txt_cache)
-
-    local_txt = (t_real + num_pad) // sp_size
-    encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis = _shard_text_for_sp(
-        encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis
-    )
-
-    sp_rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
-    txt_start = sp_rank * local_txt
-    valid_txt = min(local_txt, max(t_real - txt_start, 0))
-    text_mask = torch.zeros(
-        encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-        local_txt,
-        dtype=torch.bool,
-        device=encoder_hidden_states.device,
-    )
-    text_mask[:, :valid_txt] = True
-    image_mask = torch.ones(
-        encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
-        image_seq_len,
-        dtype=torch.bool,
-        device=encoder_hidden_states.device,
-    )
-    joint_mask = torch.cat([text_mask, image_mask], dim=1)
-    # Gathered joint layout is rank-major [txt_0, img_0, ..., txt_{sp-1},
-    # img_{sp-1}]; the pad block is the tail of the last rank's text chunk.
-    gap_meta = {
-        "gap_start": (sp_size - 1) * (local_txt + image_seq_len) + local_txt - num_pad,
-        "gap_end": (sp_size - 1) * (local_txt + image_seq_len) + local_txt,
-    }
-    return encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis, joint_mask, gap_meta
-
-
 def _get_qkv_projections(
     attn: "QwenImageCrossAttention", hidden_states, encoder_hidden_states=None
 ):
@@ -776,6 +689,8 @@ class QwenImageCrossAttention(nn.Module):
         # When the text stream is sharded across SP ranks the joint sequence is
         # fully sequence-parallel, so no leading tokens are replicated.
         sp_text_sharded = cross_attention_kwargs.get("sp_text_sharded", False)
+        # Rows of tail padding inside THIS rank's text chunk (sp_shard meta).
+        sp_txt_pad = (attn_mask_meta or {}).get("local_pad", 0)
 
         (
             img_query,
@@ -834,11 +749,11 @@ class QwenImageCrossAttention(nn.Module):
                 txt_query, txt_key, txt_cache, is_neox=False
             )
 
-        # Concatenate for joint attention
-        # Order: [text, image]
-        joint_query = torch.cat([txt_query, img_query], dim=1)
-        joint_key = torch.cat([txt_key, img_key], dim=1)
-        joint_value = torch.cat([txt_value, img_value], dim=1)
+        # Joint order [text, image]; join_seqs relocates any SP text tail-pad
+        # behind the image (see sp_shard.join_seqs for why).
+        joint_query = join_seqs(txt_query, img_query, sp_txt_pad)
+        joint_key = join_seqs(txt_key, img_key, sp_txt_pad)
+        joint_value = join_seqs(txt_value, img_value, sp_txt_pad)
         if attn_mask is None and encoder_hidden_states_mask is not None:
             image_mask = torch.ones(
                 (hidden_states.shape[0], img_query.shape[1]),
@@ -865,8 +780,9 @@ class QwenImageCrossAttention(nn.Module):
         joint_hidden_states = joint_hidden_states.to(joint_query.dtype)
 
         # Split attention outputs back
-        txt_attn_output = joint_hidden_states[:, :seq_len_txt, :]  # Text part
-        img_attn_output = joint_hidden_states[:, seq_len_txt:, :]  # Image part
+        txt_attn_output, img_attn_output = split_seqs(
+            joint_hidden_states, seq_len_txt, sp_txt_pad
+        )
 
         # Apply output projections
         img_attn_output, _ = self.to_out[0](img_attn_output)
@@ -1502,7 +1418,6 @@ class QwenImageTransformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
 
         block_attention_kwargs = attention_kwargs.copy() if attention_kwargs else {}
         sp_text_sharded = False
-        sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
         if encoder_hidden_states_mask is not None:
             encoder_hidden_states_mask = encoder_hidden_states_mask.to(
                 device=hidden_states.device, dtype=torch.bool
@@ -1520,29 +1435,24 @@ class QwenImageTransformer2DModel(CachableDiT, LayerwiseOffloadableModuleMixin):
             block_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = build_varlen_mask_meta(
                 joint_mask
             )
-        elif sp_size > 1 and encoder_hidden_states.shape[1] % sp_size == 0:
-            # Text divides evenly across SP ranks: plain even shard, no mask.
-            encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis = _shard_text_for_sp(
-                encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis
+        elif should_shard_text(encoder_hidden_states.shape[1]):
+            # Shard the replicated text stream across SP ranks; non-divisible
+            # lengths tail-pad the last rank and attention skips the pad via the
+            # per-request tail meta. Otherwise fall through to replicated text.
+            txt_shard = build_shard_plan(encoder_hidden_states.shape[1])
+            encoder_hidden_states = shard_like(encoder_hidden_states, txt_shard)
+            if freqs_cis is not None:
+                img_cache, txt_cache = freqs_cis
+                freqs_cis = (img_cache, shard_like(txt_cache, txt_shard, dim=0))
+            tail_meta = tail_attn_meta(
+                txt_shard,
+                encoder_hidden_states.shape[0],
+                hidden_states.device,
+                image_seq_len=hidden_states.shape[1],
             )
+            if tail_meta is not None:
+                block_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = tail_meta
             sp_text_sharded = True
-        elif sp_size > 1 and get_ring_parallel_world_size() == 1:
-            # Text does not divide evenly: pad to an SP multiple and shard, with a
-            # pad-gap mask so USPAttention excludes the padding via the varlen
-            # kernel. The varlen masked path does not support ring parallelism, so
-            # uneven text under ring>1 instead falls through to the replicated
-            # path below.
-            (
-                encoder_hidden_states,
-                freqs_cis,
-                pad_mask,
-                pad_meta,
-            ) = _pad_shard_text_for_sp_varlen(
-                encoder_hidden_states, freqs_cis, hidden_states.shape[1]
-            )
-            sp_text_sharded = True
-            block_attention_kwargs["attn_mask"] = pad_mask
-            block_attention_kwargs["attn_mask_meta"] = pad_meta
         block_attention_kwargs["sp_text_sharded"] = sp_text_sharded
 
         temb = self.time_text_embed(timestep, hidden_states, additional_t_cond)
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/stages/model_specific_stages/mova.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/stages/model_specific_stages/mova.py
index 36de4cf2f..c673fdfcf 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/stages/model_specific_stages/mova.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/stages/model_specific_stages/mova.py
@@ -25,13 +25,16 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed import (
 )
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.communication_op import (
     cfg_model_parallel_all_reduce,
-    sequence_model_parallel_all_gather,
 )
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.parallel_state import (
     get_cfg_group,
     get_classifier_free_guidance_rank,
-    get_sp_parallel_rank,
-    get_sp_world_size,
+)
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.sp_shard_utils import (
+    SpShard,
+    gather_seq,
+    shard_seq,
+    tail_attn_meta,
 )
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.managers.forward_context import set_forward_context
 
@@ -651,64 +654,15 @@ class MOVADenoisingStage(PipelineStage):
 
     def _shard_sequence_for_sp(
         self, x: torch.Tensor, dim: int = 1
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
-        """
-        Shard tensor along sequence dimension for Sequence Parallelism.
-
-        Args:
-            x: Input tensor
-            dim: Dimension to shard along
-
-        Returns:
-            (sharded_tensor, pad_len)
-        """
-        sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
-        if sp_size <= 1:
-            return x, 0
-
-        sp_rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
-        seq_len = x.shape[dim]
-
-        # Pad if needed
-        pad_len = (sp_size - (seq_len % sp_size)) % sp_size
-        if pad_len > 0:
-            pad_shape = list(x.shape)
-            pad_shape[dim] = pad_len
-            pad = torch.zeros(pad_shape, dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device)
-            x = torch.cat([x, pad], dim=dim)
-
-        # Shard
-        chunk_size = x.shape[dim] // sp_size
-        start = sp_rank * chunk_size
-        end = start + chunk_size
-        idx = [slice(None)] * x.dim()
-        idx[dim] = slice(start, end)
-        return x[tuple(idx)], pad_len
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, SpShard]:
+        """Tail-padded even shard along the sequence dim (sp_shard.shard_seq)."""
+        return shard_seq(x, dim=dim)
 
     def _gather_sequence_from_sp(
-        self, x: torch.Tensor, pad_len: int, dim: int = 1
+        self, x: torch.Tensor, shard: SpShard, dim: int = 1
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
-        """
-        Gather tensor along sequence dimension after Sequence Parallelism.
-
-        Args:
-            x: Sharded tensor
-            pad_len: Padding length that was added during sharding
-            dim: Dimension to gather along
-
-        Returns:
-            Gathered tensor with padding removed
-        """
-        sp_size = get_sp_world_size()
-        if sp_size <= 1:
-            return x
-
-        gathered = sequence_model_parallel_all_gather(x, dim=dim)
-        if pad_len > 0:
-            idx = [slice(None)] * gathered.dim()
-            idx[dim] = slice(0, gathered.shape[dim] - pad_len)
-            gathered = gathered[tuple(idx)]
-        return gathered
+        """Gather an SP-sharded tensor and trim the tail padding."""
+        return gather_seq(x, shard.orig_len, dim=dim)
 
     def inference_single_step(
         self,
@@ -817,13 +771,20 @@ class MOVADenoisingStage(PipelineStage):
         ).reshape(full_audio_seq_len, 1, -1)
 
         # Shard sequences for SP
-        visual_x, visual_pad_len = self._shard_sequence_for_sp(visual_x, dim=1)
-        audio_x, audio_pad_len = self._shard_sequence_for_sp(audio_x, dim=1)
+        visual_x, visual_shard = self._shard_sequence_for_sp(visual_x, dim=1)
+        audio_x, audio_shard = self._shard_sequence_for_sp(audio_x, dim=1)
 
         # Shard freqs to match local sequence length
         visual_freqs, _ = self._shard_sequence_for_sp(visual_freqs, dim=0)
         audio_freqs, _ = self._shard_sequence_for_sp(audio_freqs, dim=0)
 
+        # Tail-pad meta so self-attention excludes SP padding (built once per
+        # step, shared by every block).
+        visual_attn_meta = tail_attn_meta(
+            visual_shard, visual_x.shape[0], visual_x.device
+        )
+        audio_attn_meta = tail_attn_meta(audio_shard, audio_x.shape[0], audio_x.device)
+
         # Forward through dual-tower DiT
         visual_x, audio_x = self.forward_dual_tower_dit(
             visual_dit=visual_dit,
@@ -839,11 +800,13 @@ class MOVADenoisingStage(PipelineStage):
             video_fps=video_fps,
             full_visual_seq_len=full_visual_seq_len,
             full_audio_seq_len=full_audio_seq_len,
+            visual_attn_meta=visual_attn_meta,
+            audio_attn_meta=audio_attn_meta,
         )
 
         # Gather sequences back from SP before head/unpatchify
-        visual_x = self._gather_sequence_from_sp(visual_x, visual_pad_len, dim=1)
-        audio_x = self._gather_sequence_from_sp(audio_x, audio_pad_len, dim=1)
+        visual_x = self._gather_sequence_from_sp(visual_x, visual_shard, dim=1)
+        audio_x = self._gather_sequence_from_sp(audio_x, audio_shard, dim=1)
 
         visual_output = visual_dit.head(visual_x, visual_t)
         visual_output = visual_dit.unpatchify(visual_output, grid_size)
@@ -871,6 +834,8 @@ class MOVADenoisingStage(PipelineStage):
         condition_scale: float | None = 1.0,
         a2v_condition_scale: float | None = None,
         v2a_condition_scale: float | None = None,
+        visual_attn_meta: dict | None = None,
+        audio_attn_meta: dict | None = None,
     ):
         """
         Forward pass through dual-tower DiT with cross-modal interaction.
@@ -933,15 +898,29 @@ class MOVADenoisingStage(PipelineStage):
 
             # Self-attention and FFN in DiT blocks
             visual_x = visual_block(
-                visual_x, visual_context, visual_t_mod, visual_freqs
+                visual_x,
+                visual_context,
+                visual_t_mod,
+                visual_freqs,
+                attn_mask_meta=visual_attn_meta,
+            )
+            audio_x = audio_block(
+                audio_x,
+                audio_context,
+                audio_t_mod,
+                audio_freqs,
+                attn_mask_meta=audio_attn_meta,
             )
-            audio_x = audio_block(audio_x, audio_context, audio_t_mod, audio_freqs)
 
         # Process remaining visual layers (if visual has more layers than audio)
         for layer_idx in range(min_layers, visual_layers):
             visual_block = visual_dit.blocks[layer_idx]
             visual_x = visual_block(
-                visual_x, visual_context, visual_t_mod, visual_freqs
+                visual_x,
+                visual_context,
+                visual_t_mod,
+                visual_freqs,
+                attn_mask_meta=visual_attn_meta,
             )
 
         return visual_x, audio_x
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/server/consistency_thresholds/h100.json b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/server/consistency_thresholds/h100.json
index 29705f212..62a5d8554 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/server/consistency_thresholds/h100.json
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/server/consistency_thresholds/h100.json
@@ -229,12 +229,6 @@
             "psnr_threshold": 30.0,
             "mean_abs_diff_threshold": 5.6
         },
-        "mova_360p_ring1_uly2": {
-            "clip_threshold": 0.96,
-            "ssim_threshold": 0.91,
-            "psnr_threshold": 30.0,
-            "mean_abs_diff_threshold": 6.2
-        },
         "wan2_1_i2v_14b_lora_2gpu": {
             "clip_threshold": 0.97,
             "ssim_threshold": 0.90,
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/test_utils.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/test_utils.py
index 3fde45b97..d72b8eb4d 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/test_utils.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
-SGL_TEST_FILES_CI_DATA_REVISION = "c28c11c24125b009f9e602fd5ae0d0ddcdc11d36"
+SGL_TEST_FILES_CI_DATA_REVISION = "46b9b53a429606cb6739c861f275c1277c314a10"
 
 if current_platform.is_npu():
     SGL_TEST_FILES_CI_DATA_REVISION = "670d66a8a290b62c0c3c077b3e9b0f4a4d9a44e7"
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_sp_shard.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_sp_shard.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f16173426
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_sp_shard.py
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+"""Unit tests for the unified SP shard helpers (pure logic, no distributed)."""
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed import sp_shard_utils as sps
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.sp_shard_utils import (
+    SpShard,
+    shard_like,
+    tail_attn_meta,
+)
+
+
+def _fake_sp(monkeypatch, sp_size, sp_rank=0, ring=1):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sps, "get_sp_world_size", lambda: sp_size)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sps, "get_sp_parallel_rank", lambda: sp_rank)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sps, "get_ring_parallel_world_size", lambda: ring)
+
+
+# --- build_shard_plan math --------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_plan_shard_divisible(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 2, 1)
+    s = sps.build_shard_plan(16)
+    assert (s.local_len, s.num_pad, s.local_pad) == (8, 0, 0)
+
+
+def test_plan_shard_padded_last_rank(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 4, 3)
+    s = sps.build_shard_plan(14)
+    assert (s.local_len, s.num_pad) == (4, 2)
+    assert s.local_pad == 2 and s.local_real_len == 2
+
+
+def test_plan_shard_pad_only_on_last_rank(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 4, 0)
+    s = sps.build_shard_plan(14)
+    assert s.local_pad == 0 and s.local_real_len == 4
+
+
+def test_plan_shard_sp1_noop(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 1)
+    s = sps.build_shard_plan(15)
+    assert (s.local_len, s.num_pad, s.sp_size) == (15, 0, 1)
+
+
+# --- shard_like -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_shard_like_zero_pads_tail():
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=15, local_len=8, num_pad=1, sp_size=2, sp_rank=1)
+    x = torch.arange(15, dtype=torch.float32).unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(-1)
+    local = shard_like(x, shard, dim=1)
+    assert local.shape[1] == 8
+    assert local[0, -1, 0].item() == 0.0  # tail pad
+    assert local[0, 0, 0].item() == 8.0  # rank1 starts at token 8
+
+
+def test_shard_like_repeat_last():
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=15, local_len=8, num_pad=1, sp_size=2, sp_rank=1)
+    x = torch.arange(15, dtype=torch.float32).unsqueeze(-1)
+    local = shard_like(x, shard, dim=0, pad_mode="repeat_last")
+    assert local[-1, 0].item() == 14.0  # repeated last row, not zero
+
+
+def test_shard_like_chunks_align_across_tensors():
+    # RoPE cache sharded with the same plan stays aligned with hidden states.
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=15, local_len=8, num_pad=1, sp_size=2, sp_rank=0)
+    x = torch.arange(15).unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(-1).float()
+    rope = torch.arange(15).unsqueeze(-1).float()
+    assert torch.equal(
+        shard_like(x, shard, dim=1)[0, :, 0], shard_like(rope, shard, dim=0)[:, 0]
+    )
+
+
+# --- tail_attn_meta ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_tail_meta_none_when_divisible():
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=16, local_len=8, num_pad=0, sp_size=2, sp_rank=0)
+    assert tail_attn_meta(shard, 1, torch.device("cpu")) is None
+
+
+def test_tail_meta_single_stream():
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=15, local_len=8, num_pad=1, sp_size=2, sp_rank=1)
+    meta = tail_attn_meta(shard, 1, torch.device("cpu"))
+    assert meta["pad_start"] == 15 and meta["pad_end"] == 16
+    assert meta["local_pad"] == 1
+    assert meta["cu_seqlens_tail"].tolist() == [0, 15, 16]
+    assert meta["max_seqlen_tail"] == 15
+
+
+def test_tail_meta_joint_layout_and_batch():
+    # sp=2, local_txt=8 (1 pad), img=100 per rank -> S = 2*(8+100) = 216.
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=15, local_len=8, num_pad=1, sp_size=2, sp_rank=1)
+    meta = tail_attn_meta(shard, 2, torch.device("cpu"), image_seq_len=100)
+    assert meta["pad_start"] == 215 and meta["pad_end"] == 216
+    assert meta["cu_seqlens_tail"].tolist() == [0, 215, 216, 431, 432]
+
+
+def test_tail_meta_max_seqlen_covers_pad_segment():
+    # Degenerate short sequence: num_pad (3) > valid (1). FA requires
+    # max_seqlen >= the longest segment, i.e. the pad block here.
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=1, local_len=1, num_pad=3, sp_size=4, sp_rank=3)
+    meta = tail_attn_meta(shard, 1, torch.device("cpu"))
+    assert meta["max_seqlen_tail"] == 3
+
+
+def test_tail_meta_matches_legacy_gap_formula():
+    # The tail layout puts the pad exactly where the legacy per-model gap
+    # formula pointed, minus the relocation: end == S (global tail).
+    sp, local_txt, img, num_pad = 3, 5, 40, 2
+    shard = SpShard(
+        orig_len=sp * local_txt - num_pad,
+        local_len=local_txt,
+        num_pad=num_pad,
+        sp_size=sp,
+        sp_rank=sp - 1,
+    )
+    meta = tail_attn_meta(shard, 1, torch.device("cpu"), image_seq_len=img)
+    seq = sp * (local_txt + img)
+    assert meta["pad_end"] == seq
+    assert meta["pad_start"] == seq - num_pad
+
+
+# --- plan_text_strategy -----------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_strategy_sp1_replicates(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 1)
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(100) == "replicate"
+
+
+def test_strategy_shard_when_legal(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 2)
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(15) == "shard"
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(16) == "shard"
+
+
+def test_strategy_ring_blocks_padded_shard(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 2, ring=2)
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(15) == "replicate"  # padded shard needs mask
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(16) == "shard"  # divisible: no mask needed
+
+
+def test_strategy_min_len_threshold(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 2)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sps, "_TEXT_SHARD_MIN", 64)
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(32) == "replicate"
+    assert sps.plan_text_strategy(64) == "shard"
+
+
+# --- join_seqs / split_seqs / shard_seq_prefix ------------------------------
+
+
+def test_join_split_roundtrip_with_pad():
+    # Joint [text, image] with 2 tail-pad rows relocated behind the image.
+    txt = torch.arange(6, dtype=torch.float32).view(1, 6, 1)  # rows 4,5 are pad
+    img = (torch.arange(3, dtype=torch.float32) + 100).view(1, 3, 1)
+    joint = sps.join_seqs(txt, img, local_pad=2)
+    assert joint[0, :, 0].tolist() == [0, 1, 2, 3, 100, 101, 102, 4, 5]
+    txt_back, img_back = sps.split_seqs(joint, prefix_len=6, local_pad=2)
+    assert torch.equal(txt_back, txt) and torch.equal(img_back, img)
+
+
+def test_join_split_roundtrip_no_pad():
+    txt = torch.randn(1, 4, 2)
+    img = torch.randn(1, 3, 2)
+    joint = sps.join_seqs(txt, img, local_pad=0)
+    assert torch.equal(joint, torch.cat([txt, img], dim=1))
+    txt_back, img_back = sps.split_seqs(joint, prefix_len=4, local_pad=0)
+    assert torch.equal(txt_back, txt) and torch.equal(img_back, img)
+
+
+def test_shard_seq_prefix_only_touches_prefix():
+    # Joint RoPE cache [txt(15); img(4)]: text segment shards, image stays.
+    shard = SpShard(orig_len=15, local_len=8, num_pad=1, sp_size=2, sp_rank=1)
+    cache = torch.arange(19, dtype=torch.float32).unsqueeze(-1)
+    out = sps.shard_seq_prefix(cache, 15, shard, dim=0)
+    assert out.shape[0] == 8 + 4
+    assert out[0, 0].item() == 8.0  # rank1 text chunk starts at token 8
+    assert out[-4:, 0].flatten().tolist() == [15, 16, 17, 18]  # image untouched
+
+
+def test_should_shard_text_gate(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 2)
+    assert sps.should_shard_text(15) is True
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 1)
+    assert sps.should_shard_text(15) is False
+
+
+# --- gather_seq -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_gather_seq_sp1_noop(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 1)
+    x = torch.randn(1, 5, 2)
+    assert sps.gather_seq(x, 5, dim=1) is x
+
+
+def test_gather_seq_trims(monkeypatch):
+    _fake_sp(monkeypatch, 2)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        sps, "sequence_model_parallel_all_gather", lambda t, dim: torch.cat([t, t], dim)
+    )
+    local = torch.randn(1, 8, 2)
+    out = sps.gather_seq(local, 15, dim=1)
+    assert out.shape[1] == 15
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    pytest.main([__file__, "-q"])