Apple Microarchitecture Research by Dougall Johnson

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

BICS (register, lsl, 64-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  bics x0, x0, x1, lsl #17
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires: 1.000

Issues: 2.000

Integer unit issues: 2.001

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)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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Test 2: Latency 1->2

Code:

  bics x0, x0, x1, lsl #17
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 2.0030

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): 2.0030

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->3

Code:

  bics x0, x1, x0, lsl #17
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 2.0030

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): 2.0030

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 4: Latency 4->2

Chain cycles: 1

Code:

  bics x0, x1, x2, lsl #17
  cset x1, cc
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2
  mov x2, 3
  mov x3, 4
  mov x4, 5

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 1 chain cycle): 2.0030

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, minus 1 chain cycle): 2.0030

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule 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)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 5: Latency 4->3

Chain cycles: 1

Code:

  bics x0, x1, x2, lsl #17
  cset x2, cc
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2
  mov x2, 3
  mov x3, 4
  mov x4, 5

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 1 chain cycle): 2.0030

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)ldst uops in schedulers (5b)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map ldst uop (7d)map simd uop (7e)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, minus 1 chain cycle): 2.0030

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 6: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  bics x0, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x1, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x2, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x3, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x4, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x5, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x6, x8, x9, lsl #17
  bics x7, x8, x9, lsl #17
  mov x8, 9
  mov x9, 10
  mov x10, 11

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.6675

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 divided by count): 0.6671

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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