Not the kernel develpment at all, but the RHEL kernels (which PVE uses in a patched version). This ist why newer 3.16 and also 4.0 kernels do not have this problem (and PVE 4.0 also not, depending on its 4.0 kernel).
Imho upgrading to PVE 4 or using the backported kernel 3.16 or even the 4.0...