group snap remove (... rm)        Remove a snapshot from a group.
       group snap rename                 Rename group's snapshot.
       group snap rollback               Rollback group to snapshot.
+      image-cache invalidate            Discard existing / dirty image cache
       image-meta get                    Image metadata get the value associated
                                         with the key.
       image-meta list (image-meta ls)   Image metadata list keys with values.
     --group arg          group name
     --snap arg           snapshot name
   
+  rbd help image-cache invalidate
+  usage: rbd image-cache invalidate [--pool <pool>] [--namespace <namespace>] 
+                                    [--image <image>] [--image-id <image-id>] 
+                                    <image-spec> 
+  
+  Discard existing / dirty image cache
+  
+  Positional arguments
+    <image-spec>         image specification
+                         (example: [<pool-name>/[<namespace>/]]<image-name>)
+  
+  Optional arguments
+    -p [ --pool ] arg    pool name
+    --namespace arg      namespace name
+    --image arg          image name
+    --image-id arg       image id
+  
   rbd help image-meta get
   usage: rbd image-meta get [--pool <pool>] [--namespace <namespace>] 
                             [--image <image>] 
 
--- /dev/null
+// -*- mode:C++; tab-width:8; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*-
+// vim: ts=8 sw=2 smarttab
+
+#include "tools/rbd/ArgumentTypes.h"
+#include "tools/rbd/Shell.h"
+#include "tools/rbd/Utils.h"
+#include "include/types.h"
+#include "include/rbd_types.h"
+#include "include/stringify.h"
+#include "common/errno.h"
+#include "common/Formatter.h"
+#include <iostream>
+#include <boost/program_options.hpp>
+
+namespace rbd {
+namespace action {
+namespace image_cache {
+
+namespace at = argument_types;
+namespace po = boost::program_options;
+
+void get_arguments(po::options_description *positional,
+                   po::options_description *options) {
+  at::add_image_spec_options(positional, options,
+                               at::ARGUMENT_MODIFIER_NONE);
+  at::add_image_id_option(options);
+}
+
+int execute_discard(const po::variables_map &vm,
+                    const std::vector<std::string> &ceph_global_init_args) {
+  size_t arg_index = 0;
+  std::string pool_name;
+  std::string namespace_name;
+  std::string image_name;
+  int r = utils::get_pool_image_snapshot_names(
+    vm, at::ARGUMENT_MODIFIER_NONE, &arg_index, &pool_name, &namespace_name,
+    &image_name, nullptr, true, utils::SNAPSHOT_PRESENCE_NONE,
+    utils::SPEC_VALIDATION_NONE);
+  if (r < 0) {
+    return r;
+  }
+
+  librados::Rados rados;
+  librados::IoCtx io_ctx;
+  librbd::Image image;
+  r = utils::init_and_open_image(pool_name, namespace_name, image_name, "",
+                                 "", false, &rados, &io_ctx, &image);
+  if (r < 0) {
+    std::cerr << "rbd: failed to open image " << image_name << ": "
+              << cpp_strerror(r) << std::endl;
+    return r;
+  }
+
+  r = image.invalidate_cache();
+  if (r < 0) {
+    std::cerr << "rbd: failed to discard the cache of image " << image_name << ": "
+              << cpp_strerror(r) << std::endl;
+    return r;
+  }
+
+  image.close();
+  return 0;
+}
+
+Shell::Action action_discard(
+  {"image-cache", "invalidate"}, {}, "Discard existing / dirty image cache", "",
+  &get_arguments, &execute_discard);
+
+} // namespace image_cache
+} // namespace action
+} // namespace rbd