diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 9b5b4f86b742e80b6e653f967b509b60487d49e9..a171138a94026c4a52879b74f297916ac4afd497 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ enum sched_tunable_scaling sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling
  * Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
  * (default: 2 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 750000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 750000ULL;
 
 /*
  * is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
  */
-static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 3;
+static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 8;
 
 /*
  * After fork, child runs first. If set to 0 (default) then