This comes as a first step toward processing the DAG nodes in topological orders. Doing so ensure that arguments of a node are combined before the node itself is combined, which exposes ore opportunities for optimization and/or reduce the amount of patterns a node has to match for.
DAGCombiner adding nodes to the worklist is various places causes the nodes to be in a different order from what is expected. In addition, this is reduant because these nodes end up being added to the worklist anyways due to the machinery at line 1621.
Why is this one unnecessary?