std::unique_ptr<TFE_Op, decltype(&TFE_DeleteOp)> const_op(
        TFE_NewOp(context, "Const", status), TFE_DeleteOp);
    if (TF_GetCode(status) != TF_OK) return nullptr;
    TFE_OpSetDevice(const_op.get(), underlying_devices_[device_index].c_str(),
                    status);
    if (TF_GetCode(status) != TF_OK) return nullptr;
    TFE_OpSetAttrTensor(const_op.get(), "value", tensor.get(), status);

  // scheduled on that same threadpool, causing a deadlock in cases where the
  // caller of event_mgr->ThenExecute() blocks on the completion of the callback
  // (as in the case of ConstOp kernel creation on GPU, which involves copying a
  // CPU tensor to GPU).
  // Setting a larger thread pool does not help with the Swift caller, as we use