This change could improve the hit rate on itabTable during growth.

While we are here patch comments to refer to existing functions.

Change-Id: I76f81c860a3d6107e077e7e3932550858a8b7651
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/55912
Run-TryBot: Martin Möhrmann <moehrmann@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>