diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index c5681725ca5401..f511e38c801f84 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -1102,6 +1102,22 @@ function parserOnIncoming(server, socket, state, req, keepAlive) {
     });
   }
 
+  if (req.method === 'HEAD' || req.method === 'GET') {
+    // Fast dump where request "has" already emitted all lifecycle events.
+    // This avoids a lot of unnecessary overhead otherwise introduced by
+    // stream.Readable life cycle rules. The downside is that this will
+    // break some servers that read GET bodies.
+
+    req._dumped = true;
+    req._readableState.ended = true;
+    req._readableState.endEmitted = true;
+    req._readableState.destroyed = true;
+    req._readableState.closed = true;
+    req._readableState.closeEmitted = true;
+
+    req._read();
+  }
+
   if (socket._httpMessage) {
     // There are already pending outgoing res, append.
     state.outgoing.push(res);
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-extensions-limit.js b/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-extensions-limit.js
index a9adacac5e7303..115c5e61fd3e16 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-extensions-limit.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-extensions-limit.js
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ const assert = require('assert');
     }));
 
     sock.end('' +
-      'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
+      'PUT / HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
       `Host: localhost:${port}\r\n` +
       'Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n' +
       '2;' + 'A'.repeat(10000) + '=bar\r\nAA\r\n' +
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http.js b/test/parallel/test-http.js
index 366fb42d1569d9..4cbb79ccbe5aed 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-http.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http.js
@@ -52,12 +52,18 @@ const server = http.Server(common.mustCall((req, res) => {
   if (expectedRequests.length === 0)
     server.close();
 
-  req.on('end', () => {
+  if (req.readableEnded) {
     res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
     res.write(`The path was ${url.parse(req.url).pathname}`);
     res.end();
-  });
-  req.resume();
+  } else {
+    req.on('end', () => {
+      res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
+      res.write(`The path was ${url.parse(req.url).pathname}`);
+      res.end();
+    });
+    req.resume();
+  }
 }, 3));
 server.listen(0);