diff --git a/examples/mtl/mtl.m b/examples/mtl/mtl.m
index ade0719ba..f13c00776 100644
--- a/examples/mtl/mtl.m
+++ b/examples/mtl/mtl.m
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ struct ggml_mtl_context {
     id<MTLFunction>             function_add;
     id<MTLComputePipelineState> pipeline_add;
 
+    id<MTLFunction>             function_mul;
+    id<MTLComputePipelineState> pipeline_mul;
+
     id<MTLFunction>             function_relu;
     id<MTLComputePipelineState> pipeline_relu;
 
@@ -119,6 +122,10 @@ struct ggml_mtl_context * llama_mtl_init(
         ctx->pipeline_add = [ctx->device newComputePipelineStateWithFunction:ctx->function_add error:nil];
         fprintf(stderr, "%s: loaded kernel_add: %p\n", __func__, (void *) ctx->pipeline_add);
 
+        ctx->function_mul = [ctx->library newFunctionWithName:@"kernel_mul"];
+        ctx->pipeline_mul = [ctx->device newComputePipelineStateWithFunction:ctx->function_mul error:nil];
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: loaded kernel_mul: %p\n", __func__, (void *) ctx->pipeline_mul);
+
         ctx->function_relu = [ctx->library newFunctionWithName:@"kernel_relu"];
         ctx->pipeline_relu = [ctx->device newComputePipelineStateWithFunction:ctx->function_relu error:nil];
         fprintf(stderr, "%s: loaded kernel_relu: %p\n", __func__, (void *) ctx->pipeline_relu);
@@ -253,6 +260,28 @@ int llama_mtl_eval(
 
                     const int64_t n = ggml_nelements(gf->nodes[i]);
 
+                    [encoder dispatchThreadgroups:MTLSizeMake(n, 1, 1) threadsPerThreadgroup:MTLSizeMake(1, 1, 1)];
+                } break;
+            case GGML_OP_MUL:
+                {
+                    if (encoder == nil) {
+                        encoder = [command_buffer computeCommandEncoder];
+                    }
+
+                    id<MTLBuffer> id_src0 = llama_mtl_get_buffer(ctx, gf->nodes[i]->src0, &offs_src0);
+                    id<MTLBuffer> id_src1 = llama_mtl_get_buffer(ctx, gf->nodes[i]->src1, &offs_src1);
+                    id<MTLBuffer> id_dst  = llama_mtl_get_buffer(ctx, gf->nodes[i],       &offs_dst);
+
+                    const int64_t ne00 = gf->nodes[i]->src0->ne[0];
+
+                    [encoder setComputePipelineState:ctx->pipeline_mul];
+                    [encoder setBuffer:id_src0 offset:offs_src0 atIndex:0];
+                    [encoder setBuffer:id_src1 offset:offs_src1 atIndex:1];
+                    [encoder setBuffer:id_dst  offset:offs_dst  atIndex:2];
+                    [encoder setBytes:&ne00 length:sizeof(ne00) atIndex:3];
+
+                    const int64_t n = ggml_nelements(gf->nodes[i]);
+
                     [encoder dispatchThreadgroups:MTLSizeMake(n, 1, 1) threadsPerThreadgroup:MTLSizeMake(1, 1, 1)];
                 } break;
             case GGML_OP_RELU:
@@ -373,7 +402,7 @@ int llama_mtl_eval(
                     [encoder setBuffer:id_dst  offset:offs_dst  atIndex:1];
                     [encoder setBytes:&ne00 length:sizeof( int64_t) atIndex:2];
                     [encoder setBytes:&nb01 length:sizeof(uint64_t) atIndex:3];
-                    [encoder setBytes:&eps  length:sizeof(  float) atIndex:4];
+                    [encoder setBytes:&eps  length:sizeof(  float)  atIndex:4];
 
                     const int64_t nrows = ggml_nrows(gf->nodes[i]->src0);
 
diff --git a/examples/mtl/mtl.metal b/examples/mtl/mtl.metal
index 6a736446b..78dfbe011 100644
--- a/examples/mtl/mtl.metal
+++ b/examples/mtl/mtl.metal
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ kernel void kernel_add(
     dst[gid] = src0[gid] + src1[gid];
 }
 
+// assumption: src1 is a row
+// broadcast src1 into src0
+kernel void kernel_mul(
+        device const float * src0,
+        device const float * src1,
+        device       float * dst,
+        constant   int64_t & ne00,
+        uint gid[[thread_position_in_grid]]) {
+    dst[gid] = src0[gid] * src1[gid % ne00];
+}
+
 kernel void kernel_relu(
         device const float * src0,
         device       float * dst,
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 3ee170e4c..3ddfeff01 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -1263,13 +1263,13 @@ static bool llama_eval_internal(
         // norm
         {
             cur = ggml_rms_norm(ctx0, inpL);
+
+            // cur = cur*attention_norm(broadcasted)
+            cur = ggml_mul(ctx0, cur, model.layers[il].attention_norm);
             // TODO: TMP !!!!
             if (il == 0) {
                 ggml_set_name(cur, "mtl-check");
             }
-
-            // cur = cur*attention_norm(broadcasted)
-            cur = ggml_mul(ctx0, cur, model.layers[il].attention_norm);
         }
 
         // self-attention