diff --git a/migration/block.c b/migration/block.c
index 310e2b36dc..656f38f341 100644
--- a/migration/block.c
+++ b/migration/block.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 
 #define MAX_IS_ALLOCATED_SEARCH 65536
 
+#define MAX_INFLIGHT_IO 512
+
 //#define DEBUG_BLK_MIGRATION
 
 #ifdef DEBUG_BLK_MIGRATION
@@ -665,7 +667,10 @@ static int block_save_iterate(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
     blk_mig_lock();
     while ((block_mig_state.submitted +
             block_mig_state.read_done) * BLOCK_SIZE <
-           qemu_file_get_rate_limit(f)) {
+           qemu_file_get_rate_limit(f) &&
+           (block_mig_state.submitted +
+            block_mig_state.read_done) <
+           MAX_INFLIGHT_IO) {
         blk_mig_unlock();
         if (block_mig_state.bulk_completed == 0) {
             /* first finish the bulk phase */
diff --git a/migration/postcopy-ram.c b/migration/postcopy-ram.c
index 22d6b18e63..3946aa98aa 100644
--- a/migration/postcopy-ram.c
+++ b/migration/postcopy-ram.c
@@ -241,10 +241,7 @@ static int cleanup_range(const char *block_name, void *host_addr,
      * We turned off hugepage for the precopy stage with postcopy enabled
      * we can turn it back on now.
      */
-    if (qemu_madvise(host_addr, length, QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE)) {
-        error_report("%s HUGEPAGE: %s", __func__, strerror(errno));
-        return -1;
-    }
+    qemu_madvise(host_addr, length, QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE);
 
     /*
      * We can also turn off userfault now since we should have all the
@@ -345,10 +342,7 @@ static int nhp_range(const char *block_name, void *host_addr,
      * do delete areas of the page, even if THP thinks a hugepage would
      * be a good idea, so force hugepages off.
      */
-    if (qemu_madvise(host_addr, length, QEMU_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE)) {
-        error_report("%s: NOHUGEPAGE: %s", __func__, strerror(errno));
-        return -1;
-    }
+    qemu_madvise(host_addr, length, QEMU_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
 
     return 0;
 }