> I misunderstood, you mean 32bit kernel, not 32bit machine. Theoretically 32bit
> kernel can use AVX512, but not sure if anyone use it like this. 
> get_jiffies_64()
> includes jiffies_lock ops so not good in context switch. So I want to use raw
> jiffies_64 here. jiffies is a good candidate but it has wraparound overflow 
> issue.
> Other time source are expensive here.
> 
> Should I limit the code only running on 64bit kernel? 

Yes making it 64bit only should be fine.

Other alternative would be to use 32bit jiffies on 32bit. I assume
wrapping is not that big a problem here.

-Andi

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