diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 69e582020ff8..d19df5bccfec 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
  * (to see the precise effective timeslice length of your workload,
  *  run vmstat and monitor the context-switches (cs) field)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 6000000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_latency = 6000000ULL;
 
 /*
  * The initial- and re-scaling of tunables is configurable
@@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ enum sched_tunable_scaling sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling
 
 /*
  * Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
- * (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 2 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
 
 /*
  * is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
  */
-static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 5;
+static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 3;
 
 /*
  * After fork, child runs first. If set to 0 (default) then