// (1) If type == TF_ATTR_STRING and is_list == 0
  //     then total_size is the byte size of the string
  //     valued attribute.
  // (2) If type == TF_ATTR_STRING and is_list == 1
  //     then total_size is the cumulative byte size
  //     of all the strings in the list.
  // (3) If type == TF_ATTR_SHAPE and is_list == 0
  //     then total_size is the number of dimensions
  //     of the shape valued attribute, or -1

class WorkerCacheInterface;

class ImmediateExecutionDistributedManager {
 public:
  virtual ~ImmediateExecutionDistributedManager() {}

  // Set up distributed execution environment on local and remote tasks.
  // When `reset_context` is true, initialize new cluster context state based
  // on cluster configurations provided in `server_def`; otherwise, update
  // existing context state with the provided `server_def`. Contexts created

// gradients available initially).
//
// Then we repeatedly pop an entry from the stack, run its backprop, and update
// the gradients of its inputs. Once we have computed all gradients for a single
// input we can mark this input as done, and this can trigger adding an entry to
// the stack if all outputs of that entry are now done.
//
// When the stack is empty we have gradients for all tensors we're interested
// in.

  // Sessions are added to this map in TF_NewSession, and removed in
  // TF_DeleteSession.
  // TF_Graph may only / must be deleted when
  //   sessions.size() == 0 && delete_requested == true
  //
  // TODO(b/74949947): mutations currently trigger a warning instead of a bad
  // status, this should be reverted when possible.
  tensorflow::gtl::FlatMap<TF_Session*, tensorflow::string> sessions
      TF_GUARDED_BY(mu);

// APIs for generically dealing with op attributes (e.g. when forwarding them
// through custom device implementations).
//
// TODO(allenl): Currently these are black boxes, but we should have some way to
// inspect values. This would let people e.g. copy over most attributes and then
// modify some based on their values.

// A reference to an op's name -> attribute mapping

  // TF eager runtime.
  // TODO(b/172877902): These helper functions are currently used to support
  // PyFuncOp on TFRT, and might be useful for ops that directly use low
  // level TF APIs. Remove/replace the following functions when TFRT native
  // ops are implemented.
  //===--------------------------------------------------------------------===//
  // Create an abstract tensor handle from tensorflow::Tensor.