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.

CValidationState state;
            if (pindexLast != NULL && header.hashPrevBlock != pindexLast->GetBlockHash()) {
                Misbehaving(pfrom->GetId(), 20);
                return error("non-continuous headers sequence");
            }
            if (!AcceptBlockHeader(header, state, chainparams, &pindexLast)) {
                int nDoS;
                if (state.IsInvalid(nDoS)) {
                    if (nDoS > 0)
                        Misbehaving(pfrom->GetId(), nDoS);
                    return error("invalid header received");
                }
            }
        }
        if (nodestate->nUnconnectingHeaders > 0) {
            LogPrint("net", "peer=%d: resetting nUnconnectingHeaders (%d -> 0)\n", pfrom->id, nodestate->nUnconnectingHeaders);
        }
        nodestate->nUnconnectingHeaders = 0;
        assert(pindexLast);
        UpdateBlockAvailability(pfrom->GetId(), pindexLast->GetBlockHash());
        if (nCount == MAX_HEADERS_RESULTS) {
            
            
            
            LogPrint("net", "more getheaders (%d) to end to peer=%d (startheight:%d)\n", pindexLast->nHeight, pfrom->id, pfrom->nStartingHeight);