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

SUBS (uxtb, 64-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  subs x0, x0, w1, uxtb
  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:

  subs x0, x0, w1, uxtb
  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:

  subs x0, x1, w0, uxtb
  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:

  subs x0, x1, w2, uxtb
  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)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 5: Latency 4->3

Chain cycles: 1

Code:

  subs x0, x1, w2, uxtb
  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)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)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:

  subs x0, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x1, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x2, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x3, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x4, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x5, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x6, x8, w9, uxtb
  subs x7, x8, w9, uxtb
  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)schedule ldst uop (55)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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