diff --git a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
index d127278a..3680bfdd 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - TP_SIZE=2 PP_SIZE=2 EAGER_MODE=1 CHUNKED_PREFILL=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
   - TP_SIZE=2 PP_SIZE=2 EAGER_MODE=1 CHUNKED_PREFILL=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 PP_SIZE=3 EAGER_MODE=1 CHUNKED_PREFILL=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
   - PP_SIZE=4 EAGER_MODE=1 CHUNKED_PREFILL=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
   - PP_SIZE=4 EAGER_MODE=1 CHUNKED_PREFILL=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
 
diff --git a/vllm/config.py b/vllm/config.py
index 0004622c..1ea28887 100644
--- a/vllm/config.py
+++ b/vllm/config.py
@@ -265,8 +265,6 @@ class ModelConfig:
                 " must be divisible by tensor parallel size "
                 f"({tensor_parallel_size}).")
 
-        total_num_hidden_layers = getattr(self.hf_text_config,
-                                          "num_hidden_layers", 0)
         pipeline_parallel_size = parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size
         architectures = getattr(self.hf_config, "architectures", [])
         if not all(arch in _PP_SUPPORTED_MODELS
@@ -275,12 +273,6 @@ class ModelConfig:
                 "Pipeline parallelism is only supported for the following "
                 f" architectures: {_PP_SUPPORTED_MODELS}.")
 
-        if total_num_hidden_layers % pipeline_parallel_size != 0:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"Total number of hidden layers ({total_num_hidden_layers}) "
-                "must be divisible by pipeline parallel size "
-                f"({pipeline_parallel_size}).")
-
         if self.quantization == "bitsandbytes" and (
                 parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size > 1
                 or parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size > 1):
@@ -385,9 +377,13 @@ class ModelConfig:
         return num_heads // parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size
 
     def get_num_layers(self, parallel_config: "ParallelConfig") -> int:
+        from vllm.distributed.utils import get_pp_indices
         total_num_hidden_layers = getattr(self.hf_text_config,
                                           "num_hidden_layers", 0)
-        return total_num_hidden_layers // parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size
+        pp_rank = parallel_config.rank // parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size
+        pp_size = parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size
+        start, end = get_pp_indices(total_num_hidden_layers, pp_rank, pp_size)
+        return end - start
 
     def contains_seqlen_agnostic_layers(
             self, parallel_config: "ParallelConfig") -> bool:
@@ -709,6 +705,7 @@ class ParallelConfig:
                 {"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES": envs.CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES})
 
         self._verify_args()
+        self.rank = 0
 
     def _verify_args(self) -> None:
         if (self.pipeline_parallel_size > 1
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/utils.py b/vllm/distributed/utils.py
index 4e4206e5..b5cf6c45 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/utils.py
@@ -50,8 +50,15 @@ def split_tensor_along_last_dim(
 
 def get_pp_indices(num_hidden_layers: int, pp_rank: int,
                    pp_size: int) -> Tuple[int, int]:
-    layers_per_partition = divide(num_hidden_layers, pp_size)
+    """Try to evenly distribute layers across partitions.
+    If the number of layers is not divisible by the number of partitions,
+    the last partition will have the remaining layers.
+    """
+    layers_per_partition = num_hidden_layers // pp_size
     start_layer = pp_rank * layers_per_partition
     end_layer = start_layer + layers_per_partition
 
+    if pp_rank == pp_size - 1:
+        end_layer = num_hidden_layers
+
     return (start_layer, end_layer)
diff --git a/vllm/worker/openvino_worker.py b/vllm/worker/openvino_worker.py
index 8ac6f170..c47f9acc 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/openvino_worker.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/openvino_worker.py
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ class OpenVINOWorker(LoraNotSupportedWorkerBase):
     ) -> None:
         self.model_config = model_config
         self.parallel_config = parallel_config
+        self.parallel_config.rank = rank
         self.scheduler_config = scheduler_config
         self.device_config = device_config
         self.cache_config = cache_config
diff --git a/vllm/worker/tpu_worker.py b/vllm/worker/tpu_worker.py
index 30725473..60fee989 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/tpu_worker.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/tpu_worker.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class TPUWorker(LoraNotSupportedWorkerBase):
     ) -> None:
         self.model_config = model_config
         self.parallel_config = parallel_config
+        self.parallel_config.rank = rank
         self.scheduler_config = scheduler_config
         self.device_config = device_config
         self.cache_config = cache_config
diff --git a/vllm/worker/worker.py b/vllm/worker/worker.py
index 26a176be..58707269 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/worker.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/worker.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class Worker(LocalOrDistributedWorkerBase):
     ) -> None:
         self.model_config = model_config
         self.parallel_config = parallel_config
+        self.parallel_config.rank = rank
         self.scheduler_config = scheduler_config
         self.device_config = device_config
         self.cache_config = cache_config
diff --git a/vllm/worker/xpu_worker.py b/vllm/worker/xpu_worker.py
index a946eb62..94dfcfec 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/xpu_worker.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/xpu_worker.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ class XPUWorker(LoraNotSupportedWorkerBase, Worker):
 
         self.model_config = model_config
         self.parallel_config = parallel_config
+        self.parallel_config.rank = rank
         self.scheduler_config = scheduler_config
         self.device_config = device_config
         self.cache_config = cache_config