diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index af325a382b1b6988823be5835bb55052b16005b4..26fadb44250cb74a2caf8420f7e422017d3a27e8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Targeted preemption latency for CPU-bound tasks:
- * (default: 20ms * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 5ms * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  *
  * NOTE: this latency value is not the same as the concept of
  * 'timeslice length' - timeslices in CFS are of variable length
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
  * (to see the precise effective timeslice length of your workload,
  *  run vmstat and monitor the context-switches (cs) field)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 20000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
 
 /*
  * Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
- * (default: 4 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 4000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
 
 /*
  * is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_compat_yield;
 
 /*
  * SCHED_OTHER wake-up granularity.
- * (default: 5 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  *
  * This option delays the preemption effects of decoupled workloads
  * and reduces their over-scheduling. Synchronous workloads will still
  * have immediate wakeup/sleep latencies.
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 5000000UL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 1000000UL;
 
 const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost = 500000UL;