diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/base.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/base.py
index ef143cba7fb5..ee6f747bdde1 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/base.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/base.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
         PromMetricT,
     )
     from vllm.forward_context import ForwardContext
+    from vllm.v1.core.block_pool import BlockPool
     from vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager import KVCacheBlocks
     from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import KVCacheConfig
     from vllm.v1.request import Request
@@ -446,6 +447,16 @@ def build_connector_worker_meta(self) -> KVConnectorWorkerMetadata | None:
     # Scheduler-side methods
     # ==============================
 
+    def bind_gpu_block_pool(self, gpu_block_pool: "BlockPool") -> None:
+        """
+        Bind the GPU block pool to the connector for per-GPU block status tracking.
+        For example, inc/dec ref counts, or iterate over the prefix cache blocks.
+
+        Args:
+            gpu_block_pool: the GPU block pool.
+        """
+        return
+
     @abstractmethod
     def get_num_new_matched_tokens(
         self,
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
index 3888d2e0f44c..8fe736e56be7 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.distributed.kv_events import KVCacheEvent
     from vllm.forward_context import ForwardContext
+    from vllm.v1.core.block_pool import BlockPool
     from vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager import KVCacheBlocks
     from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import KVCacheConfig
     from vllm.v1.request import Request
@@ -219,6 +220,10 @@ def register_kv_caches(self, kv_caches: dict[str, torch.Tensor]):
         for c in self._connectors:
             c.register_kv_caches(kv_caches)
 
+    def bind_gpu_block_pool(self, gpu_block_pool: "BlockPool") -> None:
+        for c in self._connectors:
+            c.bind_gpu_block_pool(gpu_block_pool)
+
     # We must override the base class method here because we need to bind
     # the metadata to each connector in the order of the connectors in the
     # MultiKVConnectorMetadata.
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/simple_cpu_offload_connector.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/simple_cpu_offload_connector.py
index 6475b941ba59..4f4d3234833d 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/simple_cpu_offload_connector.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/simple_cpu_offload_connector.py
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ def build_connector_worker_meta(self):
 
     # --- Scheduler-side methods ---
 
-    # NOTE: New API only for SimpleCPUOffloadConnector.
     def bind_gpu_block_pool(self, gpu_block_pool: "BlockPool") -> None:
         if self.scheduler_manager is not None:
             self.scheduler_manager.bind_gpu_block_pool(gpu_block_pool)
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py b/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
index f61d54faedc7..e9d221220a89 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
@@ -236,9 +236,7 @@ def __init__(
         )
         # Bind GPU block pool to the KV connector. This must happen after
         # kv_cache_manager is constructed so block_pool is available.
-        if self.connector is not None and hasattr(
-            self.connector, "bind_gpu_block_pool"
-        ):
+        if self.connector is not None:
             self.connector.bind_gpu_block_pool(self.kv_cache_manager.block_pool)
 
         self.use_pp = self.parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size > 1