const ComputeFunc& compute_func, TF_Status* status) {
    if (max_age_ == 0) {
      return compute_func(key, value, status);
    }

    // Note: we hold onto mu_ for the rest of this function. In practice, this
    // is okay, as stat requests are typically fast, and concurrent requests are
    // often for the same file. Future work can split this up into one lock per

/// information for each of the structures in section 2: ABI and API versions
/// and the number of functions in each of the function tables (which is
/// automatically determined, so ignored for the rest of this comment).
///
/// Since filesystem plugins are outside of TensorFlow's code tree, they are not
/// tied with TensorFlow releases and should have their own versioning metadata

// gradient function can accept None values. e.g. FusedBatchNorm outputs 5
// values and hence receives 5 gradient values during backprop. However the
// gradient function uses only the first of those values and ignores the rest.
// The entry, "FusedBatchNorm": [1, 2, 3, 4], indicates that only the gradient
// corresponding to index 0 is used, and the gradient values at indices 1-4 are