in v0.12 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7081 (by @luke-jr) was merged adding `-bytespersigop` (with default of 20).

this is preventing simple bare multisig transactions from being accepted into mempool when the size is < 400 bytes.  
eg; https://gist.github.com/rubensayshi/ac4f617207f7a50559e85d61c05800be

from 1-of-7 and onwards they are accepted because the ratio of bytes:sigops is high enough.  
also having 2 or more inputs will work because it again tips the ratio of bytes:sigops over.

the reason mainly being that `GetLegacySigOpCount` calls `GetSigOpCount` with `fAccurate=false`.

It looks like changing `GetLegacySigOpCount` to use `fAccurate=true` would cause side effects in the few other places (`ConnectBlock`, `CheckBlock`, `CreateNewBlock`) and simply adding `fAccurate` as arg to `GetLegacySigOpCount` would affect the value stored in `CTxMemPoolEntry.sigOpCount` which in turn affects a bunch of other things.

if (nodestate->nBlocksInFlight >= MAX_BLOCKS_IN_TRANSIT_PER_PEER) {
                        
                        break;
                    }
                    uint32_t nFetchFlags = GetFetchFlags(pfrom, pindex->pprev, chainparams.GetConsensus());
                    vGetData.push_back(CInv(MSG_BLOCK | nFetchFlags, pindex->GetBlockHash()));
                    MarkBlockAsInFlight(pfrom->GetId(), pindex->GetBlockHash(), chainparams.GetConsensus(), pindex);
                    LogPrint("net", "Requesting block %s from  peer=%d\n",
                            pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString(), pfrom->id);
                }
                if (vGetData.size() > 1) {
                    LogPrint("net", "Downloading blocks toward %s (%d) via headers direct fetch\n",
                            pindexLast->GetBlockHash().ToString(), pindexLast->nHeight);
                }
                if (vGetData.size() > 0) {
                    if (nodestate->fProvidesHeaderAndIDs && vGetData.size() == 1 && mapBlocksInFlight.size() == 1 && pindexLast->pprev->IsValid(BLOCK_VALID_CHAIN) && !(nLocalServices & NODE_WITNESS)) {
                        
                        
                        MaybeSetPeerAsAnnouncingHeaderAndIDs(nodestate, pfrom);
                        
                        vGetData[0] = CInv(MSG_CMPCT_BLOCK, vGetData[0].hash);
                    }
                    pfrom->PushMessage(NetMsgType::GETDATA, vGetData);
                }
            }
        }
        CheckBlockIndex(chainparams.GetConsensus());
        }