How can I invalidate a cache on a specific View? I am facing a situation where I need to invalidate a specific View in order to initiate clearing the cache on that View.

views_invalidate_cache() clears ALL cached Views data, for every View on the site.

How can I trigger a cache invalidation for a specific View from inside my module code?
If you know the name of the view that you want to clear, then you can clear the caches specific to that view by calling a function like the following:

/**
 * Function to invalidate selected views caches to enable the action forms to work
 */
function mymodule_invalidate_views_cache($view_name) {
  cache_clear_all('ctools_export:views_view:' . $view_name, 'cache_views', TRUE);
  cache_clear_all($view_name, 'cache_views_data', TRUE);
}


I needed this to allow VBO actions with configuration forms to be able to work while views caching was enabled (I am using content caching).  I called this twice, once in the function mymodule_myaction_form() and again in the function mymodule_myaction_submit().