diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index 91bba630a8..619af62461 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ void migration_cancel(const Error *error)
     if (error) {
         migrate_set_error(current_migration, error);
     }
+    if (migrate_dirty_limit()) {
+        qmp_cancel_vcpu_dirty_limit(false, -1, NULL);
+    }
     migrate_fd_cancel(current_migration);
 }
 
diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 1d9300f4c5..9040d66e61 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-types-migration.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-events-migration.h"
+#include "qapi/qapi-commands-migration.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
 #include "trace.h"
 #include "exec/ram_addr.h"
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@
 #include "multifd.h"
 #include "sysemu/runstate.h"
 #include "options.h"
+#include "sysemu/dirtylimit.h"
+#include "sysemu/kvm.h"
 
 #include "hw/boards.h" /* for machine_dump_guest_core() */
 
@@ -984,6 +987,37 @@ static void migration_update_rates(RAMState *rs, int64_t end_time)
     }
 }
 
+/*
+ * Enable dirty-limit to throttle down the guest
+ */
+static void migration_dirty_limit_guest(void)
+{
+    /*
+     * dirty page rate quota for all vCPUs fetched from
+     * migration parameter 'vcpu_dirty_limit'
+     */
+    static int64_t quota_dirtyrate;
+    MigrationState *s = migrate_get_current();
+
+    /*
+     * If dirty limit already enabled and migration parameter
+     * vcpu-dirty-limit untouched.
+     */
+    if (dirtylimit_in_service() &&
+        quota_dirtyrate == s->parameters.vcpu_dirty_limit) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    quota_dirtyrate = s->parameters.vcpu_dirty_limit;
+
+    /*
+     * Set all vCPU a quota dirtyrate, note that the second
+     * parameter will be ignored if setting all vCPU for the vm
+     */
+    qmp_set_vcpu_dirty_limit(false, -1, quota_dirtyrate, NULL);
+    trace_migration_dirty_limit_guest(quota_dirtyrate);
+}
+
 static void migration_trigger_throttle(RAMState *rs)
 {
     uint64_t threshold = migrate_throttle_trigger_threshold();
@@ -1013,6 +1047,8 @@ static void migration_trigger_throttle(RAMState *rs)
             trace_migration_throttle();
             mig_throttle_guest_down(bytes_dirty_period,
                                     bytes_dirty_threshold);
+        } else if (migrate_dirty_limit()) {
+            migration_dirty_limit_guest();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/migration/trace-events b/migration/trace-events
index 5259c1044b..580895e86e 100644
--- a/migration/trace-events
+++ b/migration/trace-events
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ migration_bitmap_sync_start(void) ""
 migration_bitmap_sync_end(uint64_t dirty_pages) "dirty_pages %" PRIu64
 migration_bitmap_clear_dirty(char *str, uint64_t start, uint64_t size, unsigned long page) "rb %s start 0x%"PRIx64" size 0x%"PRIx64" page 0x%lx"
 migration_throttle(void) ""
+migration_dirty_limit_guest(int64_t dirtyrate) "guest dirty page rate limit %" PRIi64 " MB/s"
 ram_discard_range(const char *rbname, uint64_t start, size_t len) "%s: start: %" PRIx64 " %zx"
 ram_load_loop(const char *rbname, uint64_t addr, int flags, void *host) "%s: addr: 0x%" PRIx64 " flags: 0x%x host: %p"
 ram_load_postcopy_loop(int channel, uint64_t addr, int flags) "chan=%d addr=0x%" PRIx64 " flags=0x%x"
diff --git a/softmmu/dirtylimit.c b/softmmu/dirtylimit.c
index 953ef934bc..5134296667 100644
--- a/softmmu/dirtylimit.c
+++ b/softmmu/dirtylimit.c
@@ -436,6 +436,23 @@ static void dirtylimit_cleanup(void)
     dirtylimit_state_finalize();
 }
 
+/*
+ * dirty page rate limit is not allowed to set if migration
+ * is running with dirty-limit capability enabled.
+ */
+static bool dirtylimit_is_allowed(void)
+{
+    MigrationState *ms = migrate_get_current();
+
+    if (migration_is_running(ms->state) &&
+        (!qemu_thread_is_self(&ms->thread)) &&
+        migrate_dirty_limit() &&
+        dirtylimit_in_service()) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+}
+
 void qmp_cancel_vcpu_dirty_limit(bool has_cpu_index,
                                  int64_t cpu_index,
                                  Error **errp)
@@ -449,6 +466,12 @@ void qmp_cancel_vcpu_dirty_limit(bool has_cpu_index,
         return;
     }
 
+    if (!dirtylimit_is_allowed()) {
+        error_setg(errp, "can't cancel dirty page rate limit while"
+                   " migration is running");
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (!dirtylimit_in_service()) {
         return;
     }
@@ -499,6 +522,12 @@ void qmp_set_vcpu_dirty_limit(bool has_cpu_index,
         return;
     }
 
+    if (!dirtylimit_is_allowed()) {
+        error_setg(errp, "can't set dirty page rate limit while"
+                   " migration is running");
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (!dirty_rate) {
         qmp_cancel_vcpu_dirty_limit(has_cpu_index, cpu_index, errp);
         return;
