diff --git a/backends/xnnpack/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/xnnpack/CMakeLists.txt
index a703d67c1b2..02cd0b6d988 100644
--- a/backends/xnnpack/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/xnnpack/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ if(NOT PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)
   resolve_python_executable()
 endif()
 
-# NB: Enabling this will serialize execution of delegate instances
-# Keeping this OFF by default to maintain existing behavior, to be revisited.
+# NB: Enabling this will serialize execution of delegate instances Keeping this
+# OFF by default to maintain existing behavior, to be revisited.
 option(EXECUTORCH_XNNPACK_SHARED_WORKSPACE
-  "Enable workspace sharing across different delegate instances" ON)
-# Keeping this OFF by default due to regressions in decode
-# and model load with kleidi kernels
-option(EXECUTORCH_XNNPACK_ENABLE_KLEIDI
-  "Enable Arm Kleidi kernels" OFF)
+       "Enable workspace sharing across different delegate instances" ON
+)
+# Keeping this OFF by default due to regressions in decode and model load with
+# kleidi kernels
+option(EXECUTORCH_XNNPACK_ENABLE_KLEIDI "Enable Arm Kleidi kernels" OFF)
 if(EXECUTORCH_XNNPACK_SHARED_WORKSPACE)
   add_definitions(-DENABLE_XNNPACK_SHARED_WORKSPACE)
 endif()
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ include(cmake/Dependencies.cmake)
 list(TRANSFORM _xnnpack_backend__srcs PREPEND "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/")
 add_library(xnnpack_backend STATIC ${_xnnpack_backend__srcs})
 target_link_libraries(
-  xnnpack_backend PRIVATE ${xnnpack_third_party} executorch_core
-                          xnnpack_schema
+  xnnpack_backend PRIVATE ${xnnpack_third_party} executorch_core xnnpack_schema
 )
 
 target_include_directories(
@@ -119,6 +118,12 @@ target_include_directories(
 target_compile_options(xnnpack_backend PUBLIC ${_common_compile_options})
 target_link_options_shared_lib(xnnpack_backend)
 
+if(EXECUTORCH_BUILD_KERNELS_OPTIMIZED)
+  list(APPEND xnn_executor_runner_libs optimized_native_cpu_ops_lib)
+else()
+  list(APPEND xnn_executor_runner_libs portable_ops_lib)
+endif()
+
 list(APPEND xnn_executor_runner_libs xnnpack_backend executorch)
 
 # ios can only build library but not binary
@@ -134,13 +139,14 @@ if(NOT CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE MATCHES ".*(iOS|ios\.toolchain)\.cmake$")
     if(EXECUTORCH_BUILD_DEVTOOLS)
       list(APPEND xnn_executor_runner_libs etdump)
     else()
-      message(SEND_ERROR "Use of 'EXECUTORCH_ENABLE_EVENT_TRACER' requires 'EXECUTORCH_BUILD_DEVTOOLS' to be enabled.")
+      message(
+        SEND_ERROR
+          "Use of 'EXECUTORCH_ENABLE_EVENT_TRACER' requires 'EXECUTORCH_BUILD_DEVTOOLS' to be enabled."
+      )
     endif()
   endif()
 
-  target_link_libraries(
-    xnn_executor_runner gflags portable_ops_lib ${xnn_executor_runner_libs}
-  )
+  target_link_libraries(xnn_executor_runner gflags ${xnn_executor_runner_libs})
   target_compile_options(xnn_executor_runner PUBLIC ${_common_compile_options})
 endif()