diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index f31de47a47..1d9300f4c5 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -999,17 +999,18 @@ static void migration_trigger_throttle(RAMState *rs)
         return;
     }
 
-    if (migrate_auto_converge()) {
-        /* The following detection logic can be refined later. For now:
-           Check to see if the ratio between dirtied bytes and the approx.
-           amount of bytes that just got transferred since the last time
-           we were in this routine reaches the threshold. If that happens
-           twice, start or increase throttling. */
-
-        if ((bytes_dirty_period > bytes_dirty_threshold) &&
-            (++rs->dirty_rate_high_cnt >= 2)) {
+    /*
+     * The following detection logic can be refined later. For now:
+     * Check to see if the ratio between dirtied bytes and the approx.
+     * amount of bytes that just got transferred since the last time
+     * we were in this routine reaches the threshold. If that happens
+     * twice, start or increase throttling.
+     */
+    if ((bytes_dirty_period > bytes_dirty_threshold) &&
+        (++rs->dirty_rate_high_cnt >= 2)) {
+        rs->dirty_rate_high_cnt = 0;
+        if (migrate_auto_converge()) {
             trace_migration_throttle();
-            rs->dirty_rate_high_cnt = 0;
             mig_throttle_guest_down(bytes_dirty_period,
                                     bytes_dirty_threshold);
         }