diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/placeholder_attn.py b/vllm/attention/backends/placeholder_attn.py
index 99c68a863f59..3987986f1786 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/placeholder_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/placeholder_attn.py
@@ -75,11 +75,8 @@ class PlaceholderAttentionMetadata(AttentionMetadata):
     # Maximum query length in the batch.
     max_query_len: Optional[int]
 
-    # Number of query tokens for each request in the batch.
-    # Currently, we require that all requests have the same number of query
-    # tokens during the decoding phase. When speculavie decoding is enabled,
-    # decode_query_len might be greater than 1. In all other cases, it is 1.
-    decode_query_len: Optional[int]
+    # Max number of query tokens among request in the batch.
+    max_decode_query_len: Optional[int]
 
     # Maximum sequence length among prefill batch. 0 if there are decoding
     # requests only.
@@ -140,7 +137,7 @@ def prefill_metadata(self) -> Optional["PlaceholderAttentionMetadata"]:
             slot_mapping=slot_mapping,
             seq_lens=self.seq_lens[:self.num_prefills],
             seq_lens_tensor=self.seq_lens_tensor[:self.num_prefills],
-            decode_query_len=0,
+            max_decode_query_len=0,
             max_query_len=self.max_query_len,
             max_prefill_seq_len=self.max_prefill_seq_len,
             max_decode_seq_len=0,
@@ -172,7 +169,7 @@ def decode_metadata(self) -> Optional["PlaceholderAttentionMetadata"]:
             slot_mapping=slot_mapping,
             seq_lens=None,
             seq_lens_tensor=self.seq_lens_tensor[self.num_prefills:],
-            decode_query_len=self.decode_query_len,
+            max_decode_query_len=self.max_decode_query_len,
             max_query_len=None,
             max_prefill_seq_len=0,
             max_decode_seq_len=self.max_decode_seq_len,
@@ -256,9 +253,9 @@ def build(self, seq_lens: List[int], query_lens: List[int],
         max_query_len = max(query_lens)
         decode_query_lens = query_lens[self.num_prefills:]
         if len(decode_query_lens) > 0:
-            decode_query_len = max(decode_query_lens)
+            max_decode_query_len = max(decode_query_lens)
         else:
-            decode_query_len = 1
+            max_decode_query_len = 1
         max_prefill_seq_len = max(self.prefill_seq_lens, default=0)
         max_decode_seq_len = max(self.curr_seq_lens, default=0)
         num_decode_tokens = self.num_decode_tokens
@@ -304,7 +301,7 @@ def build(self, seq_lens: List[int], query_lens: List[int],
             seq_lens=seq_lens,
             seq_lens_tensor=seq_lens_tensor,
             max_query_len=max_query_len,
-            decode_query_len=decode_query_len,
+            max_decode_query_len=max_decode_query_len,
             max_prefill_seq_len=max_prefill_seq_len,
             max_decode_seq_len=max_decode_seq_len,
             query_start_loc=query_start_loc,