diff --git a/src/llama-context.cpp b/src/llama-context.cpp
index 72211db17b..0b2b05c419 100644
--- a/src/llama-context.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-context.cpp
@@ -2173,13 +2173,6 @@ llm_graph_cb llama_context::graph_get_cb() const {
             ggml_set_name(cur, name);
         }
 
-        if (!cparams.offload_kqv) {
-            if (strcmp(name, "kqv_merged_cont") == 0) {
-                // all nodes between the KV store and the attention output are run on the CPU
-                ggml_backend_sched_set_tensor_backend(sched.get(), cur, backend_cpu);
-            }
-        }
-
         // norm may be automatically assigned to the backend of the previous layer, increasing data transfer between backends
         // FIXME: fix in ggml_backend_sched
         const bool full_offload = model.n_gpu_layers() > model.hparams.n_layer;
diff --git a/src/llama-graph.cpp b/src/llama-graph.cpp
index 16d42c4ae3..b3198b7e3a 100644
--- a/src/llama-graph.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-graph.cpp
@@ -1630,6 +1630,11 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_attn_mha(
                                   hparams.attn_soft_cap ? hparams.f_attn_logit_softcapping : 0.0f);
         cb(cur, LLAMA_TENSOR_NAME_FATTN, il);
 
+        if (!cparams.offload_kqv) {
+            // all nodes between the KV store and the attention output are run on the CPU
+            ggml_backend_sched_set_tensor_backend(sched, cur, backend_cpu);
+        }
+
         ggml_flash_attn_ext_add_sinks(cur, sinks);
         ggml_flash_attn_ext_set_prec (cur, GGML_PREC_F32);