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

LD1R (post-index, 8H)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  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): 2.000

Issues: 3.002

Integer unit issues: 1.001

Load/store unit issues: 1.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 1.002

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)ldst uops in schedulers (5b)dispatch uop (78)map ldst uop (7d)map simd uop (7e)map ldst uop inputs (80)map simd uop inputs (81)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? simd retires (ee)
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6200429400300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429383300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429363300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429351300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429364300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429315300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429349300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429654300310011002100010001000100030003000777030001000100020001000100110001000
6200429812300310011002100010001000100030003001777130001000100020001000100110001000

Test 2: Latency 1->2 roundtrip

Chain cycles: 3

Code:

  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  fmov x0, d0
  eor x8, x8, x0
  eor x8, x8, x0
  add x6, x6, x8
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2
  mov x8, 0

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 3 chain cycles): 9.0042

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)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)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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6020412004280103501012000210000401042000610003319917594358019522747011330209100042000760338200482004750021100001000040100
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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 3 chain cycles): 9.0047

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)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)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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6002412004080013500112000210000400102000010000319918994453519541347001030020100002000060020200002000050001100001000040010
6002412004080013500112000210000400102000010000319918994453519541347001030020100002000060038200082000750001100001000040010
6002412004080013500112000210000400102000010000319918994453519541347001030020100002000060020200002000050001100001000040010
6002412004080013500112000210000400102000010000319918994453519541347001030020100002000060020200002000050001100001000040010
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6002412004080013500112000210000400102000010000319918994453519541347001030020100002000060020200002000050001100001000040010
6002412004080013500112000210000400102000010000319918994453519541347001030020100002000060020200002000050001100001000040010

Test 3: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  ld1r { v0.8h }, [x6], x8
  mov x7, x6
  mov x8, x6
  mov x9, x6
  mov x10, x6
  mov x11, x6
  mov x12, x6
  mov x13, x6
  mov x8, 0

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 1.0005

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)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)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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16020480040240125801018002480000801068000680006139980413596021799751240118200800068000620016001280006800018000080000100
16020480040240125801018002480000801068000680006139980413596021799751240118200800068000620016001280006800018000080000100
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16020480040240125801018002480000801068000680006139980413596021799751240118200800068000620016001280006800018000080000100
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16020480040240125801018002480000801068000680006139980413596021799751240118200800068000620016001280006800018000080000100

1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 1.0005

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)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)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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