Add minor performance improvements to resnet input pipeline #4340
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Added the following changes to improve input pipeline.
The improvements were observed when testing with 8 V100 GPUs on DGX-1 using mirrored strategy (fp16, resnet v2). Also saw improvements in GCE V100. No improvement observed on K80s but that is expected since they are not bottlenecked on input.