diff --git a/tests/lora/test_add_lora.py b/tests/lora/test_add_lora.py
index 9a82ab99ea9c..d3d5e2c1cf9f 100644
--- a/tests/lora/test_add_lora.py
+++ b/tests/lora/test_add_lora.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from vllm.inputs import TextPrompt
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import merge_async_iterators
 
 MODEL_PATH = "zai-org/chatglm3-6b"
 LORA_RANK = 64
diff --git a/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py b/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py
index af7dad079a9b..7baca7800bb9 100644
--- a/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py
+++ b/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 )
 
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
-from vllm.utils.func import identity
+from vllm.utils.functools import identity
 
 from ....conftest import (
     IMAGE_ASSETS,
diff --git a/tests/utils_/test_async_utils.py b/tests/utils_/test_async_utils.py
index 03d116bdfd81..070cfb38fb03 100644
--- a/tests/utils_/test_async_utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils_/test_async_utils.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import merge_async_iterators
 
 
 async def _mock_async_iterator(idx: int):
diff --git a/tests/utils_/test_func_utils.py b/tests/utils_/test_func_utils.py
index 147a39699459..e2b5003fd062 100644
--- a/tests/utils_/test_func_utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils_/test_func_utils.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-from vllm.utils.func import deprecate_kwargs, supports_kw
+from vllm.utils.functools import deprecate_kwargs, supports_kw
 
 from ..utils import error_on_warning
 
diff --git a/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py b/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
index 866365ac18eb..7610b9503480 100644
--- a/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
+++ b/vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.outputs import RequestOutput
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import merge_async_iterators
 
 
 def run_vllm(
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py b/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
index 0d8b0280d504..10472b18d84e 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_get_processor
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
-from vllm.utils.func import supports_kw
+from vllm.utils.functools import supports_kw
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py
index f33fce7716a9..b60330f71d39 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams, SamplingParams
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
 from vllm.utils import as_list
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import merge_async_iterators
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_embedding.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_embedding.py
index 4c05d9f57fa6..7540a2e5d5cf 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_embedding.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_embedding.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 )
 from vllm.pooling_params import PoolingParams
 from vllm.utils import chunk_list
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import merge_async_iterators
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py
index 6464d4f9e675..041e47c1c797 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 )
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of, random_uuid
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import (
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import (
     AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer,
     collect_from_async_generator,
     make_async,
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_pooling.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_pooling.py
index 7a27348da35b..102a29fe35cd 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_pooling.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_pooling.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.outputs import PoolingOutput, PoolingRequestOutput
 from vllm.tasks import SupportedTask
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import merge_async_iterators
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_score.py b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_score.py
index 9cbfc9791819..de3d7fbb2c5a 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_score.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_score.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.outputs import PoolingRequestOutput, ScoringRequestOutput
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import make_async, merge_async_iterators
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import make_async, merge_async_iterators
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/renderer.py b/vllm/entrypoints/renderer.py
index 63487a6ed007..a8ce5e3fc64d 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/renderer.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/renderer.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from vllm.inputs.data import TokensPrompt as EngineTokensPrompt
 from vllm.inputs.parse import get_prompt_components, parse_raw_prompts
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
diff --git a/vllm/executor/executor_base.py b/vllm/executor/executor_base.py
index 9de2249f6c05..cfb7950bcca0 100644
--- a/vllm/executor/executor_base.py
+++ b/vllm/executor/executor_base.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.sequence import ExecuteModelRequest
 from vllm.tasks import SupportedTask
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import make_async
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import make_async
 from vllm.v1.outputs import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.v1.worker.worker_base import WorkerBase
 
diff --git a/vllm/executor/ray_distributed_executor.py b/vllm/executor/ray_distributed_executor.py
index b41466a6a770..9d6747be2b33 100644
--- a/vllm/executor/ray_distributed_executor.py
+++ b/vllm/executor/ray_distributed_executor.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     get_ip,
     get_open_port,
 )
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import make_async
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import make_async
 from vllm.v1.outputs import SamplerOutput
 
 if ray is not None:
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/deep_gemm_moe.py b/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/deep_gemm_moe.py
index 169b14ba46eb..c944140877fa 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/deep_gemm_moe.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/deep_gemm_moe.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 )
 from vllm.utils import has_deep_gemm
 from vllm.utils.deep_gemm import m_grouped_fp8_gemm_nt_contiguous
-from vllm.utils.func import run_once
+from vllm.utils.functools import run_once
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces.py
index 2487d7a69113..0eef5ab7dbc0 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 from vllm.inputs.data import PromptType
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization import QuantizationConfig
-from vllm.utils.func import supports_kw
+from vllm.utils.functools import supports_kw
 
 from .interfaces_base import VllmModel, is_pooling_model
 
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces_base.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces_base.py
index da1ffd254827..0c3c262da41e 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces_base.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/interfaces_base.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 from typing_extensions import TypeIs, TypeVar
 
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.utils.func import supports_kw
+from vllm.utils.functools import supports_kw
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.config import VllmConfig
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/processing.py b/vllm/multimodal/processing.py
index 96055551c26e..9e8bb91baed7 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/processing.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/processing.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_processor_from_config
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, decode_tokens, encode_tokens
 from vllm.utils import flatten_2d_lists, full_groupby
-from vllm.utils.func import get_allowed_kwarg_only_overrides
+from vllm.utils.functools import get_allowed_kwarg_only_overrides
 from vllm.utils.jsontree import JSONTree, json_map_leaves
 
 from .hasher import MultiModalHasher
diff --git a/vllm/tracing.py b/vllm/tracing.py
index b4008064fef0..4e55c746c88b 100644
--- a/vllm/tracing.py
+++ b/vllm/tracing.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.utils.func import run_once
+from vllm.utils.functools import run_once
 
 TRACE_HEADERS = ["traceparent", "tracestate"]
 
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py
index cdc138064a33..7f9d55473357 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 from transformers.video_processing_utils import BaseVideoProcessor
 from typing_extensions import TypeVar
 
-from vllm.utils.func import get_allowed_kwarg_only_overrides
+from vllm.utils.functools import get_allowed_kwarg_only_overrides
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.config import ModelConfig
diff --git a/vllm/utils/async_utils.py b/vllm/utils/asyncio.py
similarity index 99%
rename from vllm/utils/async_utils.py
rename to vllm/utils/asyncio.py
index aeabd808add5..b6c24e1ceeee 100644
--- a/vllm/utils/async_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/utils/asyncio.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
-"""Contains helpers related to asynchronous code."""
+"""
+Contains helpers related to asynchronous code.
+
+This is similar in concept to the `asyncio` module.
+"""
 
 import asyncio
 import contextlib
diff --git a/vllm/utils/func.py b/vllm/utils/functools.py
similarity index 100%
rename from vllm/utils/func.py
rename to vllm/utils/functools.py
diff --git a/vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py b/vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py
index ed9d82ca5373..8a52fcef9e73 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, init_tokenizer_from_configs
 from vllm.usage.usage_lib import UsageContext
 from vllm.utils import Device, as_list, cdiv
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import cancel_task_threadsafe
-from vllm.utils.func import deprecate_kwargs
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import cancel_task_threadsafe
+from vllm.utils.functools import deprecate_kwargs
 from vllm.v1.engine import EngineCoreRequest
 from vllm.v1.engine.core_client import EngineCoreClient
 from vllm.v1.engine.exceptions import EngineDeadError, EngineGenerateError
diff --git a/vllm/v1/engine/core_client.py b/vllm/v1/engine/core_client.py
index a9deebc7e1f5..f2e316a90970 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/engine/core_client.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/engine/core_client.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     get_open_zmq_inproc_path,
     make_zmq_socket,
 )
-from vllm.utils.async_utils import in_loop
+from vllm.utils.asyncio import in_loop
 from vllm.v1.engine import (
     EngineCoreOutputs,
     EngineCoreRequest,