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diff --git a/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/server_context.h b/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/server_context.h
index 2af9fdaa34..ad08b8210d 100644
--- a/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/server_context.h
+++ b/include/grpc++/impl/codegen/server_context.h
@@ -105,6 +105,19 @@ class ServerContext {
bool IsCancelled() const;
+ // Cancel the Call from the server. This is a best-effort API and depending on
+ // when it is called, the RPC may still appear successful to the client.
+ // For example, if TryCancel() is called on a separate thread, it might race
+ // with the server handler which might return success to the client before
+ // TryCancel() was even started by the thread.
+ //
+ // It is the caller's responsibility to prevent such races and ensure that if
+ // TryCancel() is called, the serverhandler must return Status::CANCELLED. The
+ // only exception is that if the serverhandler is already returning an error
+ // status code, it is ok to not return Status::CANCELLED even if TryCancel()
+ // was called.
+ void TryCancel() const;
+
const std::multimap<grpc::string_ref, grpc::string_ref>& client_metadata() {
return client_metadata_;
}