diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index c3ce1c96..0b0a2e08 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -91,6 +91,16 @@ keeps per-core data without locks and relies on that, so the host models it (`ru
   queues"); a CPU signal counts for a submission only when it came before the copies above were taken, and a
   submission it comes too late for goes on at once in one of its own (`vk_exec_xfer.c`, "events the CPU signals").
   `NX2NAVI_EVO_TRACE=1` logs the order every frame was replayed in.
+- Several submitting threads. The game submits from several threads and presents from one of them. Their replays take
+  turns on the submission lock (`vk_sync.c`). The state a present closes for the frame (the DLSS state, the motion
+  tables, the frame count conditional draws go by) is reset between two replays: by the present when the lock is free,
+  else first thing in the next submission (`vk_frame_owed.h`, `NX2NAVI_PRESENT_ORDER`). A present held for
+  event-ordered work is put out once and in order by whichever thread's submission finds its work done
+  (`vk_present_held.h`); submitting threads only try its lock, and the presenting thread waits for it only while
+  another thread puts a held present out. A recording two threads submit at once gets a copy of its own for the
+  second, for its deferred binds (`nvn_submit_guard.h`). Held work is asked about without the lock from a published
+  copy (`vk_evo_peek.h`). The log counts the overlaps with `NX2NAVI_TRACE=perf` ("enters a submit ... while"), and at
+  exit what they cost ("frame bookkeeping: ...").
 - Driver data. The NVN driver keeps a per-stage constant bank (c0). The back end fills it as the driver does: storage
   and uniform tables, push constants and, for NVN 2 compute, the dispatch's group counts in bytes 0-0xb.
 - Storage buffers the shaders reach through pointer tables in memory are bound at the address the table holds
diff --git a/runtime/nvn_api_core.c b/runtime/nvn_api_core.c
index d0ed2d92..fa85ccb9 100644
--- a/runtime/nvn_api_core.c
+++ b/runtime/nvn_api_core.c
@@ -710,9 +710,11 @@ static uint64_t lod_entered, lod_issued, lod_fence[LOD_RING];
 // core given up (section 2.2), or queued for the replay thread (NX2NAVI_REPLAY_ASYNC, vk_backend.c); the newest fence
 // value is what QueueFenceSync records. With the queue the fence covers replay and GPU, so the LOD guard below waits
 // for both.
-// NX2NAVI_TRACE=perf (nvn_api.h): which threads submit and present, and whether two of these calls run at once. The
-// synchronous replay's front end (vk_backend.c submit_sync, vk_be_present's held present, nvn_submits_in_frame) takes
-// no lock of its own, so it relies on one thread at a time; this tells a run whether that holds.
+// NX2NAVI_TRACE=perf (nvn_api.h): which threads submit and present, and whether two of these calls run at once, which
+// happens in play (at area changes). With the replay on the submitting threads they take turns where it matters:
+// replays on the submission lock (vk_sync.c sub_lock), a frame's bookkeeping at its present between two replays
+// (vk_frame_owed.h), a held present put out by one thread and in order (vk_present_held.h), and a second submission of
+// a recording in flight on a clone of its own (nvn_submit_guard.h). An overlap line counts; it is not a fault.
 void nvn_call_note(int present, uintptr_t q, int enter) {
     if (!(rt_trace & RT_TRACE_PERF)) return;
     static volatile int32_t inside;