This seems to help the problem reported in #14606; this
change seems to produce about a 4% improvement (mostly
for the 128-8192 shards).

Fixes #14789.

Change-Id: I1bd52c82d4ca81d9d5e9ab371fdfc860d7e8af50
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20660
Run-TryBot: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>