I actually moved to the LTS HWE kernel sometime last week to see if that might help. I can say it has made no difference.
$ uname -a Linux blackhole 4.8.0-41-generic #44~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 3 17:11:16 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I actually moved to the LTS HWE kernel sometime last week to see if that might help. I can say it has made no difference.
$ uname -a
Linux blackhole 4.8.0-41-generic #44~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 3 17:11:16 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux