This change is fixing an issue where the dagcombine incorrectly used an addressing mode with scaled offsets (indices), instead of unscaled offsets.
Those addressing modes do not exist for prfh , prfw and prfd, hence we can reuse prfb because that has unscaled offsets, and because the pseudo-code in the XML spec suggests that the element size is not used for the amount of data that is prefetched by the instruction.
FWIW, GCC also emits a prfb for these cases.