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.

bool fNotify = false;
    bool fInitialBlockDownload = false;
    static CBlockIndex* pindexHeaderOld = NULL;
    CBlockIndex* pindexHeader = NULL;
    {
        LOCK(cs_main);
        if (!setBlockIndexCandidates.empty()) {
            pindexHeader = *setBlockIndexCandidates.rbegin();
        }
        if (pindexHeader != pindexHeaderOld) {
            fNotify = true;
            fInitialBlockDownload = IsInitialBlockDownload();
            pindexHeaderOld = pindexHeader;
        }
    }
    
    if (fNotify) {
        uiInterface.NotifyHeaderTip(fInitialBlockDownload, pindexHeader);
    }
}
/**
 * Make the best chain active, in multiple steps. The result is either failure
 * or an activated best chain. pblock is either NULL or a pointer to a block
 * that is already loaded (to avoid loading it again from disk).
 */
bool ActivateBestChain(CValidationState &state, const CChainParams& chainparams, const CBlock *pblock) {