Apple Microarchitecture Research by Dougall Johnson

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LD4R (1D)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop ; nop
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2
  mov x8, 0

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires (minus 60 nops): 6.000

Issues: 6.012

Integer unit issues: 0.000

Load/store unit issues: 2.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 4.012

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Test 2: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  ld4r { v0.1d, v1.1d, v2.1d, v3.1d }, [x6]
  mov x7, x6
  mov x8, x6
  mov x9, x6
  mov x10, x6
  mov x11, x6
  mov x12, x6
  mov x13, x6

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 1.0008

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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 1.0009

retire uop (01)cycle (02)03l1d tlb fill (05)mmu table walk data (08)09l2 tlb miss data (0b)0e0f181e22233a3f4346494e51schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)schedule simd uop (54)schedule ldst uop (55)dispatch int uop (56)dispatch simd uop (57)dispatch ldst uop (58)int uops in schedulers (59)simd uops in schedulers (5a)ldst uops in schedulers (5b)60696b6d6emap stall dispatch (70)map rewind (75)map stall (76)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map ldst uop (7d)map simd uop (7e)map int uop inputs (7f)map ldst uop inputs (80)map simd uop inputs (81)8283flush restart other nonspec (84)85inst all (8c)inst branch (8d)inst branch taken (90)inst branch cond (94)inst int alu (97)inst simd load (98)inst ldst (9b)9d9fl1d tlb access (a0)l1d tlb miss (a1)l1d cache miss ld (a3)ld unit uop (a6)l1d cache writeback (a8)a9acafb5b6bbl1d cache miss ld nonspec (bf)l1d tlb miss nonspec (c1)c2cdcfd0d5map dispatch bubble (d6)ddfetch restart (de)e0eaebec? ldst retires (ed)? simd retires (ee)? int retires (ef)f5f6f7f8fd
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