public:
  AbstractContextKind getKind() const { return kind_; }

  // Release any underlying resources, including the interface object.
  //
  // WARNING: The destructor of this class is marked as protected to disallow
  // clients from directly destroying this object since it may manage its own
  // lifetime through ref counting. Thus clients MUST call Release() in order to
  // destroy an instance of this class.

//  arguments are as follows:
//
//    ncontrol_outputs: Number of control outputs of the function.
//    control_outputs: vector of TF_Operation objects to be marked as control
//      outputs of the function. Operations marked as control outputs are
//      guaranteed to execute.
//    control_output_names: Optional. If not nullptr, vector of strings, one

// "fifo_queue_dequeue_<tensor_id>", to be executed by this API call.

// Caller must call TF_DeleteTensor() over the returned tensor. If the queue is
// empty, this call is blocked.
//
// Tensors are enqueued via the corresponding TF enqueue op.
// TODO(hongm): Add support for `timeout_ms`.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern TF_Tensor* TF_DequeueNamedTensor(TF_Session* session,

// (also known as adjoint function) to compute, given downstream gradients,
// upstream gradients.
//
// TODO(apassos) provide concrete template instantiations for TFE_TensorHandle
// specialization, which is blocked by quite a few things needing to loop back
// into python now.
template <typename Gradient, typename BackwardFunction, typename TapeTensor>
class VSpace {
 public:
  virtual ~VSpace() {}

 public:
  AbstractOperationKind getKind() const { return kind_; }

  // Release any underlying resources, including the interface object.
  //
  // WARNING: The destructor of this class is marked as protected to disallow
  // clients from directly destroying this object since it may manage it's own
  // lifetime through ref counting. Thus this must be allocated on the heap and

  DEVICE_PLACEMENT_EXPLICIT = 0,
  // Copy the tensor to the right device but log a warning.
  DEVICE_PLACEMENT_WARN = 1,
  // Silently copy the tensor, which has a performance cost since the operation
  // will be blocked till the copy completes. This is the default policy.
  DEVICE_PLACEMENT_SILENT = 2,
  // Placement policy which silently copies int32 tensors but not other dtypes.
  DEVICE_PLACEMENT_SILENT_FOR_INT32 = 3,
};

  TFE_DEVICE_PLACEMENT_EXPLICIT = 0,
  // Copy the tensor to the right device but log a warning.
  TFE_DEVICE_PLACEMENT_WARN = 1,
  // Silently copy the tensor, which has a performance cost since the operation
  // will be blocked till the copy completes. This is the default placement
  // policy.
  TFE_DEVICE_PLACEMENT_SILENT = 2,
  // Placement policy which silently copies int32 tensors but not other dtypes.
  TFE_DEVICE_PLACEMENT_SILENT_FOR_INT32 = 3,

  void UpdateLRU(const Key& key, const std::shared_ptr<Block>& block,
                 TF_Status* status) ABSL_LOCKS_EXCLUDED(mu_);

  /// Remove all blocks of a file, with mu_ already held.
  void RemoveFile_Locked(const std::string& filename)
      ABSL_EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(mu_);

  /// Remove the block `entry` from the block map and LRU list, and update the
  /// cache size accordingly.