// 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
    // key if this proves to be a significant performance bottleneck.
    absl::MutexLock lock(&mu_);
    if (LookupLocked(key, value)) {
      return TF_SetStatus(status, TF_OK, "");
    }
    compute_func(key, value, status);