Forgot to mention - this was on a rather crusty 4.2.6 kernel. Just upgraded to 
4.8.1
and the issue appears to have been resolved...

On 10/18/2016 12:42 -0500, Walberg, Tim wrote:
>>      Unless I'm misinterpreting something it appears that maybe btrfs 
>> doesn't pass
>>      fstrim commands down to the underlying drives when being used in a 
>> RAID-1 config.
>>      
>>      I have this output from a small script I wrote to run at boot time (and 
>> also via
>>      cron.weekly), rather than using continous trim in the boot options:
>>      
>>      # cat /var/log/trim.log
>>      Thu Oct 13 07:40:07 CDT 2016
>>      /boot: 454 MiB (476062720 bytes) trimmed
>>      
>>      Thu Oct 13 07:40:08 CDT 2016
>>      /: 8.9 GiB (9585152000 bytes) trimmed
>>      
>>      Thu Oct 13 07:40:22 CDT 2016
>>      /btrfs/0: 0 B (0 bytes) trimmed
>>      
>>      /boot and / are mdraid RAID 1 on partitions 1 and 3 of two Samsung 850 
>> Pro SSDs.
>>      /btrfs/0 is a btrfs-raid RAID 1 of partition 4 on the same two drives. 
>> The btrfs
>>      case does not seem to accomplish anything. By comparison, I have the 
>> same drive
>>      in my laptop, but just a single one, and the non-btrfs-raid-1 file 
>> system on one
>>      of its partitions does run fstrim successfully.
>>      
>>      This is quite possibly a known limitation, but I didn't find anything 
>> about it
>>      through some quick searching. Maybe I didn't dive deep enough...
>>      
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