diff --git a/rs/nns/governance/src/governance.rs b/rs/nns/governance/src/governance.rs
index c05c981f953..48a951b8349 100644
--- a/rs/nns/governance/src/governance.rs
+++ b/rs/nns/governance/src/governance.rs
@@ -251,10 +251,14 @@ const NODE_PROVIDER_REWARD_PERIOD_SECONDS: u64 = 2629800;
 
 const VALID_MATURITY_MODULATION_BASIS_POINTS_RANGE: RangeInclusive<i32> = -500..=500;
 
-/// Maximum allowed number of Neurons' Fund participants that may participate in an SNS swap.
-/// Given the maximum number of SNS neurons per swap participant (a.k.a. neuron basket count),
-/// this constant can be used to obtain an upper bound for the number of SNS neurons created
-/// for the Neurons' Fund participants. See also `MAX_SNS_NEURONS_PER_BASKET`.
+/// Maximum allowed number of Neurons' Fund participants that may participate in an SNS swap. Given
+/// the maximum number of SNS neurons per swap participant (a.k.a. neuron basket count), this
+/// constant can be used to obtain an upper bound for the number of SNS neurons created for the
+/// Neurons' Fund participants. See also `MAX_SNS_NEURONS_PER_BASKET`. In addition, this constant
+/// also affects the upperbound of instructions needed to draw/refund maturity from/to the Neurons'
+/// Fund, so before increasing this constant, the impact on the instructions used by
+/// `CreateServiceNervousSystem` proposal execution also needs to be evaluated (currently, each
+/// neuron takes ~120K instructions to draw/refund maturity, so the total is ~600M).
 pub const MAX_NEURONS_FUND_PARTICIPANTS: u64 = 5_000;
 
 impl NetworkEconomics {
diff --git a/rs/nns/governance/src/neuron_store/benches.rs b/rs/nns/governance/src/neuron_store/benches.rs
index 95e2da2699b..ca93870f5c1 100644
--- a/rs/nns/governance/src/neuron_store/benches.rs
+++ b/rs/nns/governance/src/neuron_store/benches.rs
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ fn draw_maturity_from_neurons_fund_stable() -> BenchResult {
     let mut rng = new_rng();
     let mut neuron_store = NeuronStore::new(BTreeMap::new());
     let mut neurons_fund_neurons = BTreeSet::new();
+    // When extrapolating to `MAX_NEURONS_FUND_PARTICIPANTS` (5K) neurons, the current performance
+    // of 12M instructions (as of the time of writing) becomes 600M instructions. This is relatively
+    // small compared to the instruction limit of 50B (or the 40B limit for application subnets).
     for _ in 0..100 {
         let neuron = new_neuron_builder(&mut rng, NeuronLocation::Heap, NeuronSize::Typical)
             .with_maturity_e8s_equivalent(2_000_000_000)