// TF_GrapplerItem represents a combination of a graph, one of more fetch nodes,
// and potentially a set of nodes to feed.
typedef struct TF_GrapplerItem TF_GrapplerItem;

// Flags indicating whether existing optimizers should be turned off.
// It's optional for plugin to set functions to return true/false. If not
// set, proper uses configuration set by user.
typedef struct TP_OptimizerConfigs {
  size_t struct_size;

// is for performance optimization by reusing an exiting unused op rather than
// creating a new op every time. If `raw_device_name` is `NULL` or empty, it
// does not set the device name. If it's not `NULL`, then it attempts to parse
// and set the device name. It's effectively `TFE_OpSetDevice`, but it is faster
// than separately calling it because if the existing op has the same

  // 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,

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

// When `enable` is true, set
// tensorflow.ConfigProto.OptimizerOptions.global_jit_level to ON_1, and also
// set XLA flag values to prepare for XLA compilation. Otherwise set
// global_jit_level to OFF.
//
// This and the next API are syntax sugar over TF_SetConfig(), and is used by

// Tensors need gradients to be computed (Tensors which are not used do not need
// any gradients to be computed).
//
// Finally, we start a backprop stack with a set of tape entries for which we
// have all gradients available. This set usually is a subset of the set of
// targets (not all since targets which have outputs in the tape will not have
// gradients available initially).
//

typedef struct TFE_TensorDebugInfo TFE_TensorDebugInfo;

// Retrieves TFE_TensorDebugInfo for `handle`.
// If TFE_TensorHandleTensorDebugInfo succeeds, `status` is set to OK and caller
// is responsible for deleting returned TFE_TensorDebugInfo.
// If TFE_TensorHandleTensorDebugInfo fails, `status` is set to appropriate
// error and nullptr is returned. This function can block till the operation
// that produces `handle` has completed.

#if !defined(IS_MOBILE_PLATFORM)
  // Set up a multi-client distributed execution environment. Must be called on
  // all tasks in the cluster.
  // This call internally coordinates with other tasks to initialize the eager
  // context and TF server for multi-client execution.
  virtual Status EnableCollectiveOps(const ServerDef& server_def) = 0;

  // Set a distributed manager that helps set up, update, and check liveness

      pruning_thread_.reset();
    }
  }

  /// Read `n` bytes from `filename` starting at `offset` into `buffer`. It
  /// returns total bytes read ( -1 in case of errors ). This method will set
  /// `status` to:
  ///
  /// 1) The error from the remote filesystem, if the read from the remote
  ///    filesystem failed.
  /// 2) `TF_FAILED_PRECONDITION` if the read from the remote filesystem
  /// succeeded,