Apple Microarchitecture Research by Dougall Johnson

M1/A14 P-core (Firestorm): Overview | Base Instructions | SIMD and FP Instructions
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AUTIB

Test 1: uops

Code:

  autib x0, x1
  mov x0, 1

(requires arm64e binary, with arm64e_preview_abi boot arg)

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires: 1.000

Issues: 1.000

Integer unit issues: 1.001

Load/store unit issues: 0.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 0.000

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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Test 2: Latency 1->1

Code:

  autib x0, x1
  mov x0, 1

(requires arm64e binary, with arm64e_preview_abi boot arg)

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 6.0029

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 6.0029

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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Test 3: Latency 1->2

Chain cycles: 1

Code:

  add x1, x0, x0
  mov x0, 0
  autib x0, x1
  mov x0, 1

(requires arm64e binary, with arm64e_preview_abi boot arg)

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 1 chain cycle): 6.0029

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)map ldst uop inputs (80)map simd uop inputs (81)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? simd retires (ee)? int retires (ef)
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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 1 chain cycle): 6.0029

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)dispatch ldst uop (58)int uops in schedulers (59)simd uops in schedulers (5a)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map ldst uop (7d)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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Test 4: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  autib x0, x8
  autib x1, x8
  autib x2, x8
  autib x3, x8
  autib x4, x8
  autib x5, x8
  autib x6, x8
  autib x7, x8

(requires arm64e binary, with arm64e_preview_abi boot arg)

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 2.0004

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)map ldst uop inputs (80)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? simd retires (ee)? int retires (ef)
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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 2.0004

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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