diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/data_parallel_controller.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/data_parallel_controller.py
index 3256e07f0..0c7921e92 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/data_parallel_controller.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/data_parallel_controller.py
@@ -163,7 +163,13 @@ class DataParallelController:
 
         if server_args.enable_dp_attention:
             self.launch_dp_attention_schedulers(server_args, port_args)
-            self.control_message_step = server_args.tp_size
+            # When local control broadcast is enabled, send control messages to
+            # every DP group leader (attn_tp_rank=0) so each leader broadcasts
+            # within its own attn_tp_group instead of the full tp_group.
+            # Otherwise fall back to the original behaviour: send to only the
+            # first leader, which then broadcasts over the full tp_group.
+            local_ctrl = server_args.enable_dp_attention_local_control_broadcast
+            self.control_message_step = 1 if local_ctrl else server_args.tp_size
         else:
             self.launch_dp_schedulers(server_args, port_args)
             self.control_message_step = 1
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
index 16193d132..7bb566aec 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
@@ -1575,7 +1575,28 @@ class Scheduler(
                     src=self.attn_cp_group.ranks[0],
                 )
 
-            if self.tp_size != 1:
+            # When dp_attention_local_control_broadcast is enabled, each DP
+            # group leader already receives control messages from the DP
+            # controller, so we broadcast within attn_tp_group + attn_cp_group
+            # instead of the full tp_group.  This avoids an expensive
+            # all-ranks gloo sync.
+            _local_ctrl = self.server_args.enable_dp_attention_local_control_broadcast
+            if _local_ctrl:
+                if self.attn_tp_size != 1:
+                    control_reqs = broadcast_pyobj(
+                        control_reqs,
+                        self.attn_tp_group.rank,
+                        self.attn_tp_cpu_group,
+                        src=self.attn_tp_group.ranks[0],
+                    )
+                if self.attn_cp_size != 1:
+                    control_reqs = broadcast_pyobj(
+                        control_reqs,
+                        self.attn_cp_group.rank,
+                        self.attn_cp_cpu_group,
+                        src=self.attn_cp_group.ranks[0],
+                    )
+            elif self.tp_size != 1:
                 control_reqs = broadcast_pyobj(
                     control_reqs,
                     self.tp_group.rank,
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py b/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py
index 2390b3414..7afa57281 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/server_args.py
@@ -639,6 +639,7 @@ class ServerArgs:
     disable_overlap_schedule: bool = False
     enable_mixed_chunk: bool = False
     enable_dp_attention: bool = False
+    enable_dp_attention_local_control_broadcast: bool = False
     enable_dp_lm_head: bool = False
     enable_two_batch_overlap: bool = False
     enable_single_batch_overlap: bool = False
@@ -5830,6 +5831,13 @@ class ServerArgs:
             action="store_true",
             help="Enabling data parallelism for attention and tensor parallelism for FFN. The dp size should be equal to the tp size. Currently DeepSeek-V2 and Qwen 2/3 MoE models are supported.",
         )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "--enable-dp-attention-local-control-broadcast",
+            action="store_true",
+            help="With DP-attention, send control messages to every DP group leader "
+            "and broadcast within attn_tp_group instead of the full tp_group. "
+            "Eliminates a costly all-ranks gloo sync on every scheduler iteration.",
+        )
         parser.add_argument(
             "--enable-dp-lm-head",
             action="store_true",