Apple Microarchitecture Research by Dougall Johnson

M1/A14 P-core (Firestorm): Overview | Base Instructions | SIMD and FP Instructions
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MRS (DCZID_EL0)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  mrs x0, dczid_el0

(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

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Test 2: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  mrs x0, dczid_el0
  mrs x1, dczid_el0
  mrs x2, dczid_el0
  mrs x3, dczid_el0
  mrs x4, dczid_el0
  mrs x5, dczid_el0
  mrs x6, dczid_el0
  mrs x7, dczid_el0

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 1.2504

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): 1.2504

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