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

TST (register, 64-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  tst x0, x1
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(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

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)
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Test 2: Latency 3->1

Chain cycles: 1

Code:

  tst x0, x1
  cset x0, cc
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 1 chain cycle): 1.0030

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): 1.0030

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 3->2

Chain cycles: 1

Code:

  tst x0, x1
  cset x1, cc
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code, minus 1 chain cycle): 1.0030

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): 1.0030

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: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  tst x0, x1
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.3635

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): 0.3631

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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