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

STRH (pre-index)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  strh w0, [x6, #8]!

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires: 1.000

Issues: 2.000

Integer unit issues: 1.001

Load/store unit issues: 1.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 0.000

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)schedule ldst uop (55)dispatch int uop (56)dispatch ldst uop (58)int uops in schedulers (59)simd uops in schedulers (5a)dispatch uop (78)map ldst uop (7d)map ldst uop inputs (80)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)
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100410722001100110001000100047611758720001000200010011000
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Test 2: Latency 2->2

Code:

  strh w0, [x6, #8]!

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 1.0095

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)schedule ldst uop (55)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)map ldst uop inputs (80)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? int retires (ef)
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10204100952010410104100001010410002435491710252010620010008200200161000410000100

1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 1.0100

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)schedule ldst uop (55)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)map ldst uop inputs (80)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? int retires (ef)
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10024101002001110011100001001010000430711710372001020100002020000100011000010
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10024101002001110011100001001010000430711710372001020100002020000100011000010
10024101002001110011100001001010000430711710372001020100002020000100011000010
10024101002001110011100001001010000430711710372001020100002020000100011000010

Test 3: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  strh w0, [x6, #8]!
  strh w0, [x7, #8]!
  strh w0, [x8, #8]!
  strh w0, [x9, #8]!
  strh w0, [x10, #8]!
  strh w0, [x11, #8]!
  strh w0, [x12, #8]!
  strh w0, [x13, #8]!
  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): 1.0006

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)schedule ldst uop (55)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)map ldst uop inputs (80)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? int retires (ef)
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8020480053160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600168000580000100
8020480045160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600168000580000100
8020480045160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600168000580000100
8020480045160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600168000580000100
8020480045160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600168000580000100
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8020480045160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600968003780000100
8020480045160105801058000080104800022403121359997160106200800082001600168000580000100

1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 1.0007

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)schedule ldst uop (55)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)map ldst uop inputs (80)? int output thing (e9)? ldst retires (ed)? int retires (ef)
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