diff --git a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/AsyncRpcClient.java b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/AsyncRpcClient.java
index e55a7ebfce0..26d6f18d590 100644
--- a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/AsyncRpcClient.java
+++ b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/AsyncRpcClient.java
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public class AsyncRpcClient extends AbstractRpcClient {
     boolean epollEnabled = conf.getBoolean(USE_NATIVE_TRANSPORT, false);
 
     // Use the faster native epoll transport mechanism on linux if enabled
-    if (epollEnabled && JVM.isLinux()) {
+    if (epollEnabled && JVM.isLinux() && JVM.isAmd64()) {
       if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
         LOG.debug("Create EpollEventLoopGroup with maxThreads = " + maxThreads);
       }
diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/JVM.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/JVM.java
index 9fb7037a5a9..2d6065bdb6f 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/JVM.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/JVM.java
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ public class JVM {
   private static final boolean linux =
     System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Linux");
   private static final String JVMVersion = System.getProperty("java.version");
+  private static final boolean amd64 = System.getProperty("os.arch").contains("amd64");
 
   /**
    * Constructor. Get the running Operating System instance
@@ -79,6 +80,14 @@ public class JVM {
   public static boolean isLinux() {
     return linux;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Check if the arch is amd64;
+   * @return whether this is amd64 or not.
+   */
+  public static boolean isAmd64() {
+    return amd64;
+  }
   
   /**
    * Check if the finish() method of GZIPOutputStream is broken
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/TestAsyncIPC.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/TestAsyncIPC.java
index c977cfabe10..ca7c9a74165 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/TestAsyncIPC.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/TestAsyncIPC.java
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ public class TestAsyncIPC extends AbstractTestIPC {
 
   private void setConf(Configuration conf) {
     conf.setBoolean(AsyncRpcClient.USE_NATIVE_TRANSPORT, useNativeTransport);
-    conf.setBoolean(AsyncRpcClient.USE_NATIVE_TRANSPORT, useGlobalEventLoopGroup);
+    conf.setBoolean(AsyncRpcClient.USE_GLOBAL_EVENT_LOOP_GROUP, useGlobalEventLoopGroup);
     if (useGlobalEventLoopGroup && AsyncRpcClient.GLOBAL_EVENT_LOOP_GROUP != null) {
       if (useNativeTransport
           && !(AsyncRpcClient.GLOBAL_EVENT_LOOP_GROUP.getFirst() instanceof EpollEventLoopGroup)