>> > 	i don't see why the diff helps the above situation.  are there any
>> > 	other conditions to consider?
>Please look again.  If an entry is found and none of the
>criteria that were previously were to set 'why' are satisfied,
>it is now returned early.  If create is not set, the entire
>block of calculating 'why' and incrementing arpstat.as_allocfail
>is now skipped and 0 is returned.

	but your change doesn't make any difference to how/when
	arpstat.as_allocfail gets incremented (which is your original point).

itojun