System calls can be pretty slow. This is mako, which has one of our
lowest latencies:
iterations ns/op
BM_unistd_getpid 10000000 209
BM_unistd_gettid 200000000 8
Bug: 15297299 (kernel panic from too many gettid calls)
Bug: 15315766 (excessive gettid overhead in liblogd)
Change-Id: I49656c0fc5b5d092390264a59e4f2c0d8a8b1aeb