diff --git a/src/meta/service/src/stream_service.rs b/src/meta/service/src/stream_service.rs
index f16a5a6ea1f5..90665a611cb9 100644
--- a/src/meta/service/src/stream_service.rs
+++ b/src/meta/service/src/stream_service.rs
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ impl StreamManagerService for StreamServiceImpl {
                             table_id: tf.table_id().table_id,
                             state: tf.state() as i32,
                             parallelism: Some(tf.assigned_parallelism.into()),
-                            max_parallelism: tf.max_parallelism() as _,
+                            max_parallelism: tf.max_parallelism as _,
                         },
                     )
                     .collect_vec()
diff --git a/src/meta/src/model/stream.rs b/src/meta/src/model/stream.rs
index da68ba469fa6..954ee820e6a7 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/model/stream.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/model/stream.rs
@@ -17,11 +17,10 @@ use std::ops::AddAssign;
 
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use risingwave_common::catalog::TableId;
-use risingwave_common::hash::{VirtualNode, VnodeCountCompat, WorkerSlotId};
+use risingwave_common::hash::{VirtualNode, WorkerSlotId};
 use risingwave_connector::source::SplitImpl;
 use risingwave_pb::common::PbActorLocation;
 use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::actor_status::ActorState;
-use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::fragment::FragmentDistributionType;
 use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::{ActorStatus, Fragment, State};
 use risingwave_pb::meta::table_parallelism::{
     FixedParallelism, Parallelism, PbAdaptiveParallelism, PbCustomParallelism, PbFixedParallelism,
@@ -283,17 +282,6 @@ impl TableFragments {
         self.ctx.timezone.clone()
     }
 
-    /// Returns the maximum value of the `vnode_count` of all hash-distributed fragments.
-    /// Returns 1 if all fragments are singleton.
-    pub fn max_parallelism(&self) -> usize {
-        self.fragments
-            .values()
-            .filter(|f| matches!(f.distribution_type(), FragmentDistributionType::Hash))
-            .map(|f| f.vnode_count())
-            .max()
-            .unwrap_or(1) // if all fragments are singleton, return 1
-    }
-
     /// Returns whether the table fragments is in `Created` state.
     pub fn is_created(&self) -> bool {
         self.state == State::Created