diff --git a/compiler/rustc_mir_transform/src/cross_crate_inline.rs b/compiler/rustc_mir_transform/src/cross_crate_inline.rs
index 53aa5f450dbb..644f2d22ef7f 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_mir_transform/src/cross_crate_inline.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_mir_transform/src/cross_crate_inline.rs
@@ -146,8 +146,9 @@ fn visit_terminator(&mut self, terminator: &Terminator<'tcx>, _: Location) {
             TerminatorKind::Call { func, unwind, .. } => {
                 // We track calls because they make our function not a leaf (and in theory, the
                 // number of calls indicates how likely this function is to perturb other CGUs).
-                // But intrinsics don't have a body that gets assigned to a CGU, so they are
-                // ignored.
+                // But there are a handful of intrinsics such as raw_eq that should not block
+                // cross-crate-inlining. Adding a broad exception for all intrinsics benchmarks well
+                // and seems more sustainable than an ever-growing list of intrinsics to ignore.
                 if let Some((fn_def_id, _)) = func.const_fn_def()
                     && find_attr!(tcx, fn_def_id, RustcIntrinsic)
                 {