// followed by `TFE_ContextAsyncWait` to clear pending operations. It will be
  // used to cancel all other operations if any fails.
  //
  // Set step_id to configure the step id used for rendezvous creation. step id
  // of value -1 is reserved for global rendezvous and should not be set here.
  void StartExecute(TFE_Context* context,
                    const std::vector<ParallelTensor*>& inputs,

// Some TF ops need a step container to be set to limit the lifetime of some
// resources (mostly TensorArray and Stack, used in while loop gradients in
// graph mode). Calling this on a context tells it to start a step.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_ContextStartStep(TFE_Context* ctx);

// Ends a step. When there is no active step (that is, every started step has

      CancellationManager* cancellation_manager) = 0;

  // Returns the stack trace set by `SetStackTrace` if exists.
  virtual absl::optional<ManagedStackTrace> GetStackTrace() = 0;

  virtual void SetStepId(int64_t step_id) = 0;

  // For LLVM style RTTI.
  static bool classof(const AbstractOperation* ptr) {
    return ptr->getKind() == kEager || ptr->getKind() == kTfrt;
  }

 protected:

  virtual void ClearCachesAndThreadExecutors() = 0;

  // Initialize the step resource container for a training step. This is used
  // in current TF runtime. For tfrt, it is used by fallback op handler.
  virtual void StartStep() = 0;
  // Destroy the step resource container for a training step.
  virtual void EndStep() = 0;

  // Return the Eager Executor for current thread. Please note that Eager